Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Your last minute checklist for the Oscars of Maths Conferences As you board your plane this week for the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, get ready to have the time of your life! I know I will and I am doing some very strategic prep to … 22. Sep 2017 | By Alaina G. Levine | 1 comment
The Professor with a Billion Students Ben Orlin of Math with Bad Drawings on the The Professor with a Billion Students Last September in Germany, between talks at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, I managed to catch a few minutes … 25. Aug 2017 | By Ben Orlin | 1 comment
Three Rules for Tackling a World-Famous Math Problem Ben Orlin of Math with Bad Drawings brings you Three Rules for Tackling a World-Famous Math Problem While I was listening to Sir Andrew Wiles speak, I saw the writer next to me had … 17. Aug 2017 | By Ben Orlin | 1 comment
Who Subsumes the Subsumers? At a conference like the HLF—bringing together researchers from across diverse fields—you’re bound to run into a few turf wars. Mathematician vs. computer scientist. Mathematician vs. physicist. Even—in one delicious exchange on September 20 —mathematician … 10. Oct 2016 | By Ben Orlin | 2 comments
Kevser Aktas and her Dream of Mathematics for All Kevser Aktas, the number theorist whose projects aim to inspire youth and ignite a facination for mathematics. We look forward to seeing her at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. What led you to do the … 22. Aug 2016 | By Wylder Green | 0 comments
No Nobel Prize for Mathematics? Is it Kovalevskaya’s Fault? Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics or Computer Science? My fellow blogger Tobias Maier has recently raised this question on the German version of the HLF Blog. Here’s an answer – or rather: a collection of … 23. Aug 2015 | By Günter M. Ziegler | 0 comments
6 out of 200: Logic and unequivocal Meet Kristina Mallory in this Q&A series with 6 out of 200 mathematicians and computer scientists participating at the 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum, August 23–28, 2015. 26 Laureates (Abel Prize, Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize, Turing … 21. Aug 2015 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 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
You don’t need to be good at maths to have fun Alex Amenta, participant #hlf14: Before arriving in Heidelberg for the 2014 Heidelberg Laureate Forum, I spent some time thinking about the purpose of the forum, a kind of overthinking which has become characteristic of myself. … 25. Sep 2014 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Maths, coca, and talent A conflict between Ecuador and Colombia around the spraying of herbicides on coca fields helped to jump start mathematics in Ecuador in 2007. The main character of this story, Ecuadorian mathematician Hermann Mena, explained it … 25. Sep 2014 | By Michele Catanzaro | 0 comments