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
All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…
Remember, remember, The fourteenth of March. While the previous number of All Squared failed to achieve topicality by appearing several weeks after the event it was about, this time we’ve hit the nail bang on the head with a podcast all about π day… on π day! We chatted to Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s Steve Mould about remembering π…
Karma by Do Ho Suh
Karma by Ho Do Suh. via NotCot.org
Matheliebe exhibition in Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein is a tiny, mountain-top country with the population of a medium-sized town and a football team routinely thrashed by everyone who encounters them (except for Scotland, of course). You’d be forgiven for thinking little ever happened there. But you’d be wrong! There is maths in Liechtenstein! The National Museum in Vaduz (page in German) is hosting…