If we draw graphs like this, we can change computers
Feb 18, 2022
3 minutes
BY SARAH WELLS
JACOB HOLM WAS FLIPPING THROUGH proofs from an October 2019 research paper he and colleague Eva Rotenberg – an associate professor in the department of applied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Denmark – had published online, when he discovered their findings had unwittingly given away a solution to a centuries-old graph problem.
Holm, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Copenhagen, was relieved no one had caught the solution first. ‘It was a real “Eureka!” moment,’ he says. ‘It suddenly seemed obvious.’
Holm and Rotenberg
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