Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Erdős, or as most people would call it, Erdős’ 100th birthday. So, Happy Birthday Paul.
f(Erdős) = 100
Gowers needs you for an experiment concerning mathematical writing
Do you know about metric spaces? Would you like to be the subject of an experiment? Then Timothy Gowers needs you! Gowers put a post on his weblog this morning containing five propositions to do with metric spaces, along with three write-ups of proofs of each proposition. He’s looking for feedback on how easy or…
Mary Ellen Rudin (1924-2013)
Mary Ellen Rudin, one of the pioneers of set-theoretical topology, passed away this week. She was 88.
The Royal Statistical Society 2013 honours
The Royal Statistical Society have announced their honours for 2013. RSSeNews has the list of recipients. The awards will be presented this September here at CP HQ, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Sir John Kingman, the former chairman of the Statistics Commission, was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold. The Guy Medal in Silver went to Brian Ripley for,…
Manchester MathsJam recap, March 2013
Having been absent for last month’s MathsJam, I was keen to have a great time this month so I prepared some nice Easter-based things (since this is the nearest MathsJam to Easter). I thought about egg-shapes, and how to construct them, and came up with a few fun things. The turnout was huge (at its…
The Abel Prize Laureate 2013: Pierre Deligne
The Abel Prize for 2013 has been awarded to Pierre Deligne, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields.
ABC, as easy as pp1-40
Here’s something that slipped to the bottom of our news queue: Shin Mochizuki has uploaded a 40-page overview of his “Inter-universal Teichmüller theory” papers – the ones which he claims prove the abc conjecture. Don’t expect to understand any of it, but maybe someone else will. PDF: A Panoramic Overview of Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory by Shinichi…