To illustrate the kinds of relationship that a hypergraph can tease out of a big data set—and an ordinary graph can’t—Purvine points to a simple example close to home, the world of scientific ...

Now that pandemic restrictions are easing up, people are getting together again. But it’s been a while, so if you and your friends need some help breaking the ice, here’s a mathematical party game you ...

Grochow is among a growing chorus of researchers who point out that when it comes to finding connections in big data, graph theory has its limits. A graph represents every relationship as a dyad, or ...