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geometry

Scientists Conjure Curves From Flatness

By Natalie Wolchover
January 6, 2015
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Researchers have found a set of rules for imbuing flat surfaces with curvature, enabling them to form a virtually unlimited range of three-dimensional structures.

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.

Computer Science

A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos

By Natalie Wolchover
December 4, 2014
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New research suggests physicists, computers and brains employ the same procedure to tease out important features from among other irrelevant bits of data.

statistical physics

At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law

By Natalie Wolchover
October 15, 2014
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A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics.

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

In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music

By Natalie Wolchover
August 12, 2014
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Martin Hairer was named a 2014 Fields medalist for an epic masterpiece in stochastic analysis that colleagues say “created a whole world.”

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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