“Optimization”

2 posts and 1 paper with this tag.

Blog posts

2026-04-12

How few clues does a Sudoku need? Searching for minimum-clue puzzles

We use the Sudoku solver from the previous post to hunt for minimum-clue puzzles across different grid sizes — and bump into an open problem in mathematics.

Optimization Sudoku Combinatorics9 min read

2026-04-05

Validating and solving Sudoku puzzles — using mathematical optimization

In this post, we go from the seemingly simple interview question of "model Sudoku as an optimization problem" all the way to an open problem in mathematics.

Optimization Interviews Sudoku9 min read

Papers

2017

Pooling problems: advances in theory and applications

Ph.D. thesis, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Pooling Optimization Global optimization Operations research

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