The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

My graduate studies included learning about constraint-based optimization algorithms (such as linear programming) and ...

Expert software and systems engineer Allan Sun shares the system he developed for tackling obstacles big and small.

Managing your inbox is a never-ending task, which is why we should seek to simplify it as much as possible. When emails pile up, you start overthinking what you need to do—I know I do, anyway. But if ...

Getting good sleep is critical. A 2018 study found that people who sleep for five to six hours are 19 percent less productive than people who regularly sleep for seven to eight hours per night. People ...

When you want to be more productive, it helps to have a role model. Financial blogs are forever interviewing contemporary CEOs about their work habits, but those aren’t that inspirational; they’re ...

Armed with a Bachelor's degree in Public Relations and many years of experience writing about video games, Skye joins the Game Rant roster as a Genshin Impact writer. She is obsessed with all things ...

When students in Catherine Hartmann’s honors seminar at the University of Wyoming took their final exams this month, they encountered a testing method as old as the ancient philosophers whose ideas ...