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Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171553

* 35' read; well written, covers origins/evolution of complexity theory
* complex but layperson readable
* integral to cryptography, programming (computational complexity) ...

Complexity theory [disambiguation]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_theory

#mathematics #logic #complexity #metacomplexity #ClaudeShannon #KurtGödel #ComputationalComplexity #TSP #P_vs_NP #GraphTheory #Boolean #MCSP

How hard is it to prove that #problems are hard to solve? #Metacomplexity #theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/?mc_cid=220b7c326d&mc_eid=ecf74dd79a

A long and interesting article on complexity in mathematics. Basically, whether P = NP.

"How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/

#Mathematics #LongRead #Complexity #Theorems #MetaComplexity