Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition…
Math
It’s been a year of endless einsteins. In March, a troupe of mathematical tilers announced that they had discovered an…
The techniques he developed in the field of complex numbers have found use in tackling a wide range of fundamental…
The pass rates are up, but the state’s annual exams were overhauled, so the results can’t really be compared with…
A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was…
Some numbers are odd: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 … Some are even: 2, 4, 6, 8,…