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The Golden Ticket: P, NP and the Search for the Impossible by Lance Fortnow MenuHome More P v NP Media Foreign Editions Errors Twitter Buy on Amazon (Commissions Earned) Publisher Site Now available in paperback! The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. Simply stated, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly checked by computer can also be quickly solved by computer. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, from discovering the shortest route through all the rides at Disney World to finding large groups of friends on Facebook. But difficulty also has its advantages. Hard problems allow us to safely conduct electronic commerce and maintain privacy in our online lives. The Golden Ticket explores what we truly can and cannot achieve computationally, describing the benefits and unexpected challenges of this compelling problem. Lance Fortnow is professor and chair of the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He founded and coauthors the Computational Complexity blog . Official Book Website at Princeton University Press Buy at Amazon.com (commissions earned) Twitter RT @brandtsk: Pop sci books on computing? These are all A++: @JamesGleick's The Information, @Fortnow's The Golden Ticket,Bernhardt's Turing's Vision , RT @bestprogbooks: Interview with Lance Fortnow, Author of The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for… https://t.co/b5AhdLAuMw https://t.co/UtHFZuDsmS , RT @fortnow: My book @GoldenTicketPNP now available in paperback with known errata corrected. https://t.co/3IsATiZIOp , RT @fortnow: The @GoldenTicketPNP now available in Russian. https://t.co/pRJNwwEPDl , RT @fortnow: Colva Roney-Dougal,Tim Gowers and Leslie Ann Goldberg try to explain P v NP on the BBC https://t.co/uezfYiyiTY , RT @keithlaw: New dish post - reviewing The Golden Ticket, Lance @Fortnow's book on the still unsolved P vs NP problem: http://t.co/KuO0mrhbkN , RT @TCtietokirjat: @GoldenTicketPNP @fortnow Finnish version in stores :) http://t.co/PmyAGVq97s , Follow Golden Ticket on Twitter Proudly powered by...