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Erica Klarreich

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Mathematics

For Persi Diaconis’ Next Magic Trick …

By Erica Klarreich
April 14, 2015
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A mathematician who has analyzed card shuffling for decades is tackling one final nemesis: “smooshing.”

number theory

Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow

By Erica Klarreich
March 12, 2015
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Researchers are on the trail of a mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory.

Mathematics

Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull

By Erica Klarreich
December 10, 2014
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A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Grand Vision for the Impossible

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Subhash Khot’s bold conjecture is helping mathematicians explore the precise limits of computation.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces

By Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the first woman Fields medalist for drawing deep connections between topology, geometry and dynamical systems, has died of cancer at the age of 40. This is our 2014 profile of her life and work.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Artur Avila’s solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have “changed the face of the field,” earning him Brazil’s first Fields Medal.

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2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

The Musical, Magical Number Theorist

By Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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The search for artistic truth and beauty has led Manjul Bhargava to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory, which have helped earn him the Fields Medal.

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Mathematics

A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge

By Erica Klarreich
February 24, 2014
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A daring speculation offers a potential way forward in one of the great unsolved problems of mathematics: the behavior of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow.

Obfuscation
cryptography

Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense

By Erica Klarreich
January 30, 2014
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In a watershed moment for cryptography, computer scientists have proposed a solution to a fundamental problem called “program obfuscation.”


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