Le mathématicien chinois Yu Deng vient de recevoir ce 23 juillet la médaille Fields pour une série de travaux culminant avec la démonstration rigoureuse d'un résultat recherché depuis un demi-siècle : comment passer des trajectoires de milliards de molécules...
Lire la suiteTime to top what you are doing and watch Oxford Mathematician @jon_ox playing with some of his toys. No prior mathematical knowledge required. Love of toys desirable. pic.twitter.com/eITae8mqXE — Oxford Mathematics (@OxUniMaths) October 10, 2024 Ce 10...
Lire la suiteIn 1940, the mathematician André Weil was imprisoned for refusing to join the French army. A letter that he wrote to his sister from jail helped spark what is now one of the most ambitious efforts in mathematics. @KSHartnett reports: https://t.co/PrP65mMvHQ...
Lire la suiteUnderstanding the small to understand the big is a vital tool in the natural sciences, not to mention many other aspects of life. Oxford Mathematician Murad Banaji introduces his latest work. Read the full case study: https://t.co/xgyQywwr09 pic.twitter.com/vArNweolBC...
Lire la suiteAh, thanks @QMULMaths ! We were lucky to interview Artur and write about his work when he got the Fields Medal in 2014. We were pleased it was dynamical systems since that's what one of us did in her research - at @QMULMaths !! https://t.co/EK4ODTTtNj...
Lire la suiteThe mathematician Eugenio Calabi died on September 25 at 100 years old. In Calabi’s obituary, Steve Nadis details how the geometer’s work shaped his field and attracted the imagination of string theorists. https://t.co/fd2MRCF5nZ — Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine)...
Lire la suiteProfessor James Maynard FRS becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a pure mathematician working in number theory, best known for his work showing the existence of unusually small gaps and unusually large gaps between primes: #RSFellows https://t.co/PscJC5wptQ...
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Vous pouvez lire, "Terence Tao, mathématicien prodige", un beau portrait via Le Monde, quelques jours après la remise de sa grande médaille à l'Académie des sciences. « C’est probablement le meilleur mathématicien vivant » - Etienne Ghys, secrétaire perpétuel...
Lire la suite“It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written. And here’s a high school kid writing it.” — Carl Pomerance, a mathematician at Dartmouth, speaking about Daniel Larsen’s proof of where pseudoprimes fall on the number...
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