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Konstantin Kakaes

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2022 in Review

The Year in Math

By Konstantin Kakaes

December 22, 2022

Four Fields Medals were awarded for major breakthroughs in geometry, combinatorics, statistical physics and number theory, even as mathematicians continued to wrestle with how computers are changing the discipline.

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Konstantin Kakaes is the senior editor in charge of mathematics coverage at Quanta Magazine. He joined Quanta in 2022 after previous stops at Politico, MIT Technology Review and The Economist. He was the 2019 Science Communicator in Residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2009-10 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of The Pioneer Detectives (2013), an e-book about space exploration and failure in scientific discovery. He has a degree in physics from Harvard University.

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