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-crunching assault.
Nahin presents a series of apparently intractable math problems and shows the thought process that allows computational solution.
