The Delicate Art of Brute Force: How to Compute It When You Can't Solve It

Using everyday computational power to tackle complex—and seemingly unsolvable—math problems

Confronted by a math problem of seemingly impenetrable difficulty, what can you do? In The Delicate Art of Brute Force, Paul Nahin shows how even if you can’t solve such a problem, you can still get an answer. The computational power of your own computer—the desktop in your home office, the laptop on your coffee table—can be deployed to overwhelm a problem’s complexity through a massive number-crunchi...