As part of the HLF, the Laureates are participating in press conferences throughout the week, and being bombarded with questions by well-meaning journalists and bloggers. Unlike most press conferences, where participants often have a specific … Read more
Bad news: The Turing award winner and father of LaTeX thinks the proofs you (and everyone else) are writing are sloppy, non-rigorous and quite likely flat-out wrong. But there’s good news too: Sir Michael Atiyah … Read more
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 … Read more
The joke among bloggers over breakfast: What award hasn’t Atiyah won? A Fields Medalist and Abel Prize recipient, he is a living legend: his index theorem (developed with Singer) revolutionized both mathematics and quantum physics. … Read more
One of the purposes of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is to allow the young researchers who are attending to interact with the laureates as people, not as distant mythical figures. Monday morning’s talks (where morning … Read more