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…
Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 6
Cor, it’s been longer than I thought since I last did one of these. I’ve been happily collecting esoterica for months, thinking I didn’t have enough new stuff to do a summation. It turns out I’ve got 22 new things! Better get cracking with the interest and the summing. In case you’re new to this: every…
That Makes It Invertible! (by The Three Directions)
Put a smile on your face this Friday morning. Here, straight out of Harvey Mudd College, are the Three Directions performing their new smash hit, That Makes It Invertible! [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4KCoNvRi6Y] via MetaFilter