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Erica Klarreich

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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.

Manjul Bhargava video
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.

Submerged turbulent jet
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.”

number theory

Together and Alone, Closing the Prime Gap

By Erica Klarreich
November 19, 2013
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Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

quantum computing

The Proof in the Quantum Pudding

By Erica Klarreich
August 21, 2013
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How do you know if a quantum computer is doing what it claims? A new protocol offers a possible solution and a boost to quantum cryptography.

number theory

Mathematicians Shed Light on Elliptic Curves

By Erica Klarreich
July 9, 2013
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Two young mathematicians are illuminating a frontier in the study of rational solutions to polynomial equations: the cubics.

Yitang Zhang
Mathematics

Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap

By Erica Klarreich
May 19, 2013
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A virtually unknown researcher has made a great advance in one of mathematics’ oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture.


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