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digital55 | 29 days ago | on: Six Math Essentials

Terence Tao: Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials“, which will cover six of the fundamental concepts in mathematics.

digital55 | 8 years ago

This was written up in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hyperuniformity-found-in-bird...

digital55 | 9 years ago

A simple proof of the Gaussian correlation conjecture extended to multivariate gamma distributions by Thomas Royen: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1028.pdf

digital55 | 9 years ago

2015 PISA results for U.S.: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-2015-United-States.pdf

digital55 | 10 years ago

Though Zhang did get a profile in TNY: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

And quite a bit of news coverage: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130519-unheralded-mathemati...

digital55 | 10 years ago

The video mentions that physicists are looking for the "ripples" (gravitational waves) that would prove inflation, and while they haven't found them yet, they seem to be getting closer to detecting them.

digital55 | 10 years ago

David Kaplan also made Particle Fever: http://particlefever.com/

digital55 | 11 years ago

This is the paper in question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831

digital55 | 11 years ago | on: ‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust

This is the Planck analysis on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738

digital55 | 11 years ago

In-depth profiles and videos about all 4 Fields medalists here: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-...

digital55 | 12 years ago | on: Terence Tao Proposes Fluid New Path in Navier-Stokes Problem

Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf