Nearly 18,000 pages of notes by eccentric French maths genius Alexandre Grothendieck were posted online Wednesday by his alma mater, Montpellier University in southern France.
Grothendieck, who died aged 86 in 2014, "revolutionised an entire area of mathematics, algebraic geometry," said Jean-Michel Marin, head of an institute that bears the mathematician's name at the university.
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Math Champion Wins With Answer About Pecking Chicks
A 13-year-old boy from Texas won a national math competition on Monday with an answer rooted in probabilities — and a dash of farming.
The boy, Luke Robitaille, took less than a second to buzz in at the Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition with the correct answer.
The question: In a barn, 100 chicks sit peacefully in a circle. Suddenly, each chick randomly pecks the chick immediately to its left or right. What is the expected number of unpecked chicks?
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The boy, Luke Robitaille, took less than a second to buzz in at the Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition with the correct answer.
The question: In a barn, 100 chicks sit peacefully in a circle. Suddenly, each chick randomly pecks the chick immediately to its left or right. What is the expected number of unpecked chicks?
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
New Twist on Sofa Problem that Stumped Mathematicians and Furniture Movers
The Moving Sofa problem asks, what is the largest shape that can move around a right-angled turn? UC Davis mathematician Dan Romik has extended this problem to a hallway with two turns, and shows that a 'bikini top' shaped sofa is the largest so far found that can move down such a hallway.
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French Mathematician Yves Meyer Wins Top Prize for 'Wavelet Theory'
A French mathematician known for his pioneering work on a theory used for applications ranging from image compression to the detection of gravitational waves from the merging of black holes has earned one of the world's top prizes in mathematics.
Yves Meyer, a professor emeritus in mathematics at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in France, will receive the Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (which awards the prize) announced today (March 21) in Oslo. The prize, which comes with a cash award of 6 million Norwegian krone ($710,000), will be bestowed by King Harald V of Norway on May 23.
Meyer was honored largely "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets," the academy said. His work on wavelets began in the mid-1980s.
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Yves Meyer, a professor emeritus in mathematics at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in France, will receive the Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (which awards the prize) announced today (March 21) in Oslo. The prize, which comes with a cash award of 6 million Norwegian krone ($710,000), will be bestowed by King Harald V of Norway on May 23.
Meyer was honored largely "for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets," the academy said. His work on wavelets began in the mid-1980s.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Monday, June 06, 2016
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever
A computer cracks the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem — but is it really maths?
Three computer scientists have announced the largest-ever mathematics proof: a file that comes in at a whopping 200 terabytes, roughly equivalent to all the digitized text held by the US Library of Congress. The researchers have created a 68-gigabyte compressed version of their solution — which would allow anyone with about 30,000 hours of spare processor time to download, reconstruct and verify it — but a human could never hope to read through it.
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Three computer scientists have announced the largest-ever mathematics proof: a file that comes in at a whopping 200 terabytes, roughly equivalent to all the digitized text held by the US Library of Congress. The researchers have created a 68-gigabyte compressed version of their solution — which would allow anyone with about 30,000 hours of spare processor time to download, reconstruct and verify it — but a human could never hope to read through it.
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
Fermat's Last Theorem Prize Approved
It was a problem that had baffled mathematicians for centuries -- until British professor Andrew Wiles set his mind to it.
"There are no whole number solutions to the equation xn + yn = zn when n is greater than 2."
Otherwise known as "Fermat's Last Theorem," this equation was first posed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and had stumped the world's brightest minds for more than 300 years.
In the 1990s, Oxford professor Andrew Wiles finally solved the problem, and this week was awarded the hugely prestigious 2016 Abel Prize -- including a $700,000 windfall.
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"There are no whole number solutions to the equation xn + yn = zn when n is greater than 2."
Otherwise known as "Fermat's Last Theorem," this equation was first posed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and had stumped the world's brightest minds for more than 300 years.
In the 1990s, Oxford professor Andrew Wiles finally solved the problem, and this week was awarded the hugely prestigious 2016 Abel Prize -- including a $700,000 windfall.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy
Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them.
Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9.
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Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
49th Known Mersenne Prime Found!
On January 7th, GIMPS celebrated its 20th anniversary with the discovery of the largest known prime number, 274,207,281-1. Curtis Cooper, one of many thousands of GIMPS volunteers, used one of his university's computers to make the find.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem
There are now 15 known convex pentagons, or nonregular pentagons with the angles pointing outward, that can "tile the plane."
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners Announced
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
The Breasts Equation
This equation is making the rounds this week. However, it doesn't work on IE as of yet.
Google: `e^{-\frac{((x-4)^2+(y-4)^2)^2}{999}}+e^{-\frac{((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2}{999}}+0.1\timese^{-((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2}+0.1\timese^{-((x-4)^2+(y-4)^2)^2}`
Google: `e^{-\frac{((x-4)^2+(y-4)^2)^2}{999}}+e^{-\frac{((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2}{999}}+0.1\timese^{-((x+4)^2+(y+4)^2)^2}+0.1\timese^{-((x-4)^2+(y-4)^2)^2}`
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Belgian Mathematician Wins Abel Prize for Shaping Algebraic Geometry
Pierre Deligne netted the prize, one of the most prestigious in mathematics and worth about $1 million, for proving a deep conjecture about algebraic geometry which has helped to transform number theory and related fields.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
Kenneth I. Appel, Mathematician Who Harnessed Computer Power, Dies at 80
Kenneth I. Appel, who helped usher the venerable mathematical proof into the computer age, solving a longstanding problem concerning colors on a map with the help of an I.B.M. computer making billions of decisions, died on April 19 in Dover, N.H. He was 80.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
48th Known Mersenne Prime Found!
On January 25th, the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1, was discovered on Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) volunteer Curtis Cooper's computer. The new prime number, 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, has 17,425,170 digits.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Sunday, November 04, 2012
Prime Number Patterns (II)
Another interesting article using circles on the distribution of primes and twin primes.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Proof Claimed For Deep Connection Between Primes
The usually quiet world of mathematics is abuzz with a claim that one of the most important problems in number theory has been solved.
Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between whole numbers — a 'Diophantine' problem.
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Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between whole numbers — a 'Diophantine' problem.
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