NP-completeness arguably forms the most pervasive concept from computer science as it captures the computational complexity of thousands of important problems from all branches of science and engineering. The P versus NP question asks whether these problems can be solved in polynomial time. A negative answer has been widely conjectured for a long time but, until recently, no concrete lower bounds were known on general models of computation. Satisfiability is the problem of deciding whether a given Boolean formula has at least one satisfying assignment. It is the first problem that was shown...
NP-completeness arguably forms the most pervasive concept from computer science as it captures the computational complexity of thousands of important ...