The BBC's Caroline Hawley looks back at the life of John Nash US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said. Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, they said. The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economic
Laureates of mathematics and computer science meet the next generation I thought it would be a good idea to relay some of the advice given by Sir Michael Francis Atiyah during his talk on Tuesday. Sir Michael Atiyah during his talk at #hlf13 Picture: HLFF @Bernhard Kreutzer Always ask yourself questions. Atiyah says that one of the secrets of his success is to always be curious. Don’t get disheart
John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts
On a late September day in 1956, John Horton Conway left home with a trunk on his back. He was a skinny 18-year-old, with long, unkempt hair – a sort of proto-hippie – and although he generally preferred to go barefoot, on this occasion he wore strappy Jesus sandals. He travelled by steam train from Liverpool to Cambridge, where he was to start life as an undergraduate. During the five-hour journe
Ted Nelson, the American academic who in 1963 coined the term hypertext, and is therefore viewed as one of the World Wide Web’s founding fathers, just released a 12-minute video with a big reveal at the end: The inventor of bitcoin, says Nelson, is probably Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki. [Update: Nelson answered our request for comment. He says that he did not receive help from anyone
Famed 'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash, wife, killed in N.J. Turnpike crashUpdated: May. 24, 2015, 1:33 p.m.|Published: May. 24, 2015, 12:33 p.m. MONROE -- John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant Princeton University mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia on Saturday in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Police said the
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Mathematician solves 270-year-old conjecture | Guwahati News - Times of India
Mathematician and head of computer application department of Assam Engineering College Bichitra Kalita, has claimed to have solved the famous 'Goldbach conjecture'. GUWAHATI: Mathematician and head of computer application department of Assam Engineering College Bichitra Kalita, has claimed to have solved the famous 'Goldbach conjecture', one of the unsolved problems in mathematics, using a new tec
Famed mathematician claims proof of 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis | New Scientist
Michael Atiyah claims to have found a proof of the Riemann hypothesis James Glossop/The Times/News Syndication One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics may have been solved, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah is set to claim on Monday. In a talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, Atiyah will present what he refers to as a “simple proof” of the Riemann hypothesis, a pr
Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap | Quanta Magazine
On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang — the paper claimed to have taken a huge step forward in understanding one of mathematics’ oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA (Published 2020)
Katherine Johnson, part of a small group of African-American women mathematicians who did crucial work at NASA, in 1966.Credit...NASA/Donaldson Collection, via Getty Images They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday at a retireme
Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85 (Published 2010)
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed the field of fractal geometry and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Aliette, said. He had lived in Cambridge. Dr. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” to refer to a new class of mathematical shapes whose uneven contours
Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
Geometry engravings found on Old Babylonian tablet force re-evaluation of other tablets of the era, with Australian scientist saying it shows the ‘society has reached a particular level of mathematical sophistication’. Photograph: UNSW Sydney Geometry engravings found on Old Babylonian tablet force re-evaluation of other tablets of the era, with Australian scientist saying it shows the ‘society ha
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An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away from one another. On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journa
Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Magazine
A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. This “sensitivity” conjecture has stumped many of the most prominent computer scientists over the years, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet. “This conjecture has stood as one of the most frustrating
A Neighborhood of Infinity: Eleven Reasons to use Haskell as a Mathematician
As a mathematician, what programming language should you use when you need to do anything algorithmic? For some specific domains there are languages tailored for the task, for example Macaulay2 is great for some types of algebra. For general problems many turn to Mathematica or Maple. But although they are universal (in the sense of Turing) they're not great platforms for general purpose algorithm
The papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Add.Ms.a.94, are available to view through AtoM. The page gives a list of the papers along with links to view the digitised manuscripts. Srinivasa Aiyanger Ramanujan was born in Erode, India in 1887. He showed early mathematical ability which developed rapidly during his teenage years. He published his first paper in 1911 and encouraged by correspondence with G.
John von Neumann wrote The Mathematician which was published in Works of the Mind Vol. I no. 1 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1947), 180-196. It has also been published in von Neumann's Collected Works. A discussion of the nature of intellectual work is a difficult task in any field, even in fields which are not so far removed from the central area of our common human intellectual effort a
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Arthur T. Benjamin – Mathematician, Harvey Mudd College
Welcome to my website! I’m a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. I’m also a mathemagician, so check out my mathemagics website for information about shows, books I’ve written, and to see content from some past performances. Arthur T. Benjamin Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd. Claremont, CA 91711-5990 Office Shanahan 2414 Email benjamin@hmc.
Categories for the Working Mathematician provides an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from the foundations, this book illuminates the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. The book then turns to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representations of functors by sets of morphism
(*) Among current mathematicians, many people regard Professor Terence Tao as the world's finest... Opinions on such things vary, of course. Professor Tao kindly fielded some of our questions, including many submitted by Numberphile viewers. EXTRA FOOTAGE: https://youtu.be/48Hr3CT5Tpk (and more extras to come) The Legend of Question Six: https://youtu.be/Y30VF3cSIYQ Professor Tao's blog: https:/
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on ‘Dangerous’ Problem
Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz conjecture is quite possibly the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics — which is exactly what makes it so treacherously alluring. “This is a really dangerous problem. People become obsessed with it and
Adi Shavit on Twitter: "Mathematician and genius John Conway, inventor of The Game of Life has succumbed to COVID-19 today. What a terrible… https://t.co/kbOrsgA1n9"
Mathematician and genius John Conway, inventor of The Game of Life has succumbed to COVID-19 today. What a terrible… https://t.co/kbOrsgA1n9
Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies at Stanford
Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14. She had been battling breast cancer since 2013; the disease spread to her liver and bones in 2016. Mirzakhani was 40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital. Professor Maryam Mirzakhani was the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top
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