Akshay Venkatesh,
Member (2005–06) in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the
2016 Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences by the Infosys Science
Foundation. Venkatesh was cited for his exceptionally wide ranging,
foundational, and creative...
Today is Richard Guy’s 100th birthday—a mathematician quite
unlike any other. Siobhan
Roberts, Director’s Visitor, highlights Guy's friendship with
mathematician Paul Erdös
and the inspiration he provided for one of Guy's most famous books,
Unsolved...
Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, discusses individual versus collaborative problem-solving, translating between geometry and number theory, and devoting his life to proving the Langlands conjectures.
The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng, Visitor in the School of Natural Sciences, is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra, and number theory.