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A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...lies at the heart of a speculative new approach to a problem that has bedeviled mathematicians for more than 150 years: understanding the solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...bit of biology, sometimes a little bit of chemistry. Mathematics applies to all kinds of things. That’s one of the joys of being a mathematician. Why math? I think the...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...said. “I evidently was wrong-headed.” Getting Complex Without Getting Random Lenski’s results have inspired other scientists to set up more complex experiments. Michael Doebeli, a mathematical biologist at the University...
The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
...a remarkable mathematical intuition. “Teach me more math!” he would badger his mother, Mira Bhargava, a mathematics professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. When he was 3 years old...
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...in math and nature. “It’s like a glue that connects many other subjects,” Krikorian said. Of the “two cultures of mathematics” described by the University of Cambridge mathematician and 1998...
A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
...thesis resulted in three papers published in the three top journals of mathematics: Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones Mathematicae and Journal of the American Mathematical Society. The majority of mathematicians will...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea. The Fields is widely viewed as the highest honor a mathematician can receive. Hairer, a professor at the University of Warwick in England, has...
A Grand Vision for the Impossible
...mathematics,” he said. “I kind of realized that math was at the base of all these things; so why not study mathematics?” This change was for the best, Ratnaparkhi joked....
Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull
...be. Paul Erdős, left, and Terence Tao discussing math in 1985. This past August, Tao and four other mathematicians proved an old Erdős conjecture, marking the first major advance in...