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One Step Closer to a ‘Grand Unified Theory of Math’: Geometric Langlands
After 30 years of effort, mathematicians finally proved a major component of the ambitious Langlands program. Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine; Kelsey Houston-Edwards for Quanta Magazine...
A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of Melting
...to mean curvature flow. Should a singularity appear, the flow can go on — making it possible for mathematicians to assess the surface’s evolution. Over the past few decades, mathematicians...
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems
...to understand,” said Sheldon Katz, a mathematician at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As mathematics advanced, the objects that mathematicians wanted to count got more complicated. It became a field...
Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations
...held for this kind of PDE. Unfortunately, “the real world is nonuniformly elliptic,” said Giuseppe Mingione, a mathematician at the University of Parma in Italy. That meant mathematicians were stuck....
The Evolving Foundations of Math
An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today....
What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
...phenomenon that occurs. So it’s not just that mathematics, that [what] mathematicians find intellectually interesting end up being physically important. But even within mathematics, subjects that mathematicians find elegant also...
Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects
...hear her on, on math, but she’s made this amazing transition from being an all-out high-power mathematician to now becoming an all-out high-power biologist. She goes to Africa, she’s mucking...
In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’
...first. Born and raised in Paris, Serfaty first became intrigued by mathematics in high school. Ultimately she gravitated toward physics problems, constructing mathematical tools to forecast what should happen in...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...New Math, Unlike the Old Math,” about new math and science standards working their way into America’s schools, and writing about Channa Comer, one of four extraordinary teachers profiled in...