"In a paper posted in September, Paul Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study has solved the subconvexity problem, a kind of lighter-weight version of Riemann’s question. The proof is a significant achievement on its own and teases the possibility that even greater discoveries related to prime numbers may be in store."
"In the 1950s, four decades before he won a Nobel Prize for his
contributions to game theory and his story inspired the book and
film “A Beautiful Mind,” the mathematician John Nash
proved one of the most remarkable results in all of geometry.
Among...
"You work in an office of 100 people. One day your favorite
paper clip is stolen. You have a pretty good idea of who did it.
Your colleague Annabel tells you that she also has a pretty good
idea.
You want to check with Annabel that you both suspect...
Avi
Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a
recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with
László
Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of Eötvös Loránd
University. They are cited by the Abel Committee “for...
"...Freeman
Dyson had a lot of stories. One of my favorites was about how
he decided to turn from studying mathematics to studying physics.
As he told me in his “Math Life” interview, he was walking down the
King’s Parade in Cambridge with a friend...
The 2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy has been awarded to Roger Blandford, Member (1974–75,
1998) in the School of Natural Sciences. Blandford is recognized
“for his foundational contributions to theoretical astrophysics,
especially concerning the...