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Mathematician Lauren Williams standing in front of a whiteboard that has mathematics written on it.
combinatorics

A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World

By Kevin Hartnett
December 16, 2020
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Lauren Williams has charted an adventurous mathematical career out of the pieces of a fundamental object called the positive Grassmannian.

A photograph of the mathematician James Maynard outside his home in Oxford, England.
profiles

A Number Theorist Who Solves the Hardest Easy Problems

By Erica Klarreich
July 1, 2020
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In his rapid ascent to the top of his field, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries.

Photo illustration of Akshay Venkatesh
2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Number Theorist Who Bridges Math and Time

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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Akshay Venkatesh, a former prodigy who struggled with the genius stereotype, has won a Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics.”

Photo illustration of Constantinos Daskalakis
2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Poet of Computation Who Uncovers Distant Truths

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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The theoretical computer scientist Constantinos Daskalakis has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for explicating core questions in game theory and machine learning.

Photo of Dr. Peter Scholze
2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic

By Erica Klarreich
August 1, 2018
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The 30-year-old math sensation Peter Scholze is now one of the youngest Fields medalists for “the revolution that he launched in arithmetic geometry.”

June Huh at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
algebraic geometry

A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World

By Kevin Hartnett
June 27, 2017
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June Huh thought he had no talent for math until a chance meeting with a legendary mind. A decade later, his unorthodox approach to mathematical thinking has led to major breakthroughs.

profiles

The Oracle of Arithmetic

By Erica Klarreich
June 28, 2016
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At 28, Peter Scholze is uncovering deep connections between number theory and geometry.

Q&A

Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind

By Siobhan Roberts
March 3, 2016
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At 86, Britain’s preeminent mathematical matchmaker is still tackling the big questions and dreaming of a union between the quantum and the gravitational forces.

Physics

Visions of Future Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
September 22, 2015
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.


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