You may be tempted to organize your small business according to a traditional hierarchical structure. This structure starts at the top with a boss who passes authority down through managers to ...

Group theory serves as a fundamental language for describing symmetry in both mathematics and physics. Finite groups, defined by their limited number of elements, are central to modern algebra and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

Research in group theory has long embraced equations as a means to elucidate the structure and behaviour of groups. In particular, Diophantine problems—those surrounding the existence and ...

Task structure is an important component of the Path-Goal Leadership Theory, which states that a leader's responsibility is to increase her employees' motivation by ensuring a high degree of task ...