A man convicted of murdering a traveling salesman in Gainesville is set to be executed next week.

Mathematical puzzles don't often get to star in feature films, but P vs NP is the subject of an upcoming thriller from Timothy Lanzone called "Travelling Salesman". The titles refers to the ...

A classic mathematical problem that finds the shortest distance of round trip travel between multiple locations. The traveling salesman problem (TSP) generates directions from city 1 to city 2 and so ...

It is a mathematical puzzle which has vexed academics and travelling salesmen alike, but new research from Queen Mary, University of London's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, reveals how ...

1. Challenges -- Tour of the United States -- An impossible task? -- One problem at a time -- Road map of the book -- 2. Origins of the problem -- Before the mathematicians -- Euler and Hamilton -- ...

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) remains one of the most challenging NP‐hard problems in combinatorial optimisation, with significant implications for logistics, network design and route planning ...

The main result of this paper is that the traveling-salesman problem is a special case of the longest-path problem. Two formulations of the traveling-salesman problem are considered; the version in ...