Maryna Viazovska, during her time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Mathematical School and the Humboldt University of Berlin, solved the centuries-old “sphere packing” problem in dimensions 8 and 24 (the latter dimension in collaboration with other...
17 December 2015 A collective effort to solve a recently discovered problem in mathematics has yielded few clues and no definitive answers. The problem is entitled the abc conjecture (also known as the Oesterlé–Masser conjecture). It was first proposed by Joseph...
13 December 2015 A well-known thereom at the heart of mathematical logic, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, has deep implications for physics because it makes a fundamental question about matter literally unanswerable. In 1931, Austrian-born mathematician Kurt...
07 December 2015 Daniel Spielman of Yale University, together with postdoc Adam Marcus, now at Princeton University, and his graduate student Nikhil Srivastava, now at the University of California, Berkeley, have succeeded in solving the famous Kadison-Singer problem....
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 June 2009 By Jeffrey R. Young The long-running debate over whether students should be allowed to wield calculators during mathematics examinations may soon seem quaint. The latest dilemma facing professors is whether to let...