The Logic of Space and Number: Dennis Sullivan’s quest for simplicity You’re always a bit nervous when talking to a laureate, but as I was running with Dennis Sullivan in the hallway of a hotel in Oslo, my worries quickly vanished. In about two hours’ time, … 06. Jul 2022 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment
Sketchnotes of the Laureate Lectures: Avi Wigderson on the Value of Errors in Proofs 21. Sep 2021 | By Constanza Rojas-Molina | 0 comments
No, There’s No Nobel in Math It’s the very first on the Nobel Prize’s list of frequently asked questions: Is there a Nobel Prize in Mathematics? Alas; it turns out that Alfred Nobel didn’t much appreciate the icy abstractions of mathematics. … 26. Sep 2017 | By Ben Orlin | 2 comments
An Abel Prize winner intimidated by math research John Tate tells the following story of how he enjoyed math when he was young, but didn’t think he could ever do research in it. In 2010 he won the Abel Prize “for his vast … 26. Sep 2014 | By John D. Cook | 0 comments
