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想知道复旦学子对最近发生在自己学校的某件事怎么议论, 今天特意进复旦大学日月光华 BBS 上逛逛. 意外的, 在数学区, 看到了网友 spline 在上个月的 26 日, Paul Erdős 的诞辰100年, 发布的”纪念 Paul Erdős 诞辰 100 周年”的帖子. 这个帖子的最后, 专门指出, 用 \(\rm\TeX\) 输出 Erdős, 其正确的语法结构是这么: Erd\H{o}s 现在特意记下来. 大家都知道的, Paul Erdős (1913.03.26-1996.09.20)是著名数学家, Wolf 奖得主, 以高产和合作的数学家多著称. 我还不清楚自己的 …
Input “Paul Erdős” with \(\rm\TeX\) Read MoreThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2013 to Pierre Deligne , Institute for Advance Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. “for seminal contributions …
Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize Read MoreProf. George Mostow, Yale, USA:For his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory. Prof. Michael Artin, M.I.T, USA: For his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both commutative …
George Mostow and Michael Artin win the 2013 Wolf Prize in Mathematics Read MoreProvidence, RI—Ian Agol of the University of California, Berkeley, is receiving the 2013 AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. The Veblen Prize is given every three years for an outstanding publication …
Ian Agol and Daniel Wise receive 2013 AMS Veblen Prize Read MoreLars Valter Hörmander, who made fundamental contributions to all areas of partial differential equations, but particularly in developing the analysis of variable-coefficient linear PDE, passed away at the age of 81 on …
Lars Hörmander Read MoreThe Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2012 is awarded to Maxim Kontsevich for his pioneering works in algebra, geometry and mathematical physics and in particular deformation quantization, motivic integration and mirror symmetry. 2012 年的邵逸夫奖, 数学奖颁予法国高等科学研究所的教授马克西姆·康采维奇, 以表彰他在代数, …
Maxim Kontsevich wins the 2012 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences Read MoreThurston passed away at 8pm on August 21 in Rochester, NY. William Paul Thurston (October 30, 1946 – August 21, 2012) was an American mathematician. 他是低维拓扑学(Low-dimensional topology)领域的先驱. 1982 年, 他因为在三维流形(3-manifolds)的工作, 而获得了菲尔兹奖(Fields Medal). Thurston …
Bill thurston Read MoreJohn Pardon solved a well-known problem in knot theory that appeared as a paper in the Annals of Mathematics, the top research journal in the field. 当时, 他还是 Princeton 的本科生, 解决了 …
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