Back in 2006, journalists Claudia Wallis and Sonja Steptoe joked in Time magazine that Rip Van Winkle awaking after a century-long snooze would be completely flummoxed by our modern society—until he ...
Yesterday I was doing some literature review for an article I’m writing about my inverted transition-to-proof class, and I got around to reading a paper by Guershon Harel and Larry Sowder¹ about ...
Imagine you had some useful knowledge — maybe a secret recipe, or the key to a cipher. Could you prove to a friend that you had that knowledge, without revealing anything about it? Computer scientists ...