Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

Artur Avila 是第一个不在美国和欧洲得博士的拿到 fields medal 的数学家. Artur Avila 21 岁在世界上著名的动力系统研究中心 Instituto Nacional de Matemática(IMPA ) 得到博士. 他接受的包括博士在内的教育, 全部在巴西完成. Artur Avila’s work Etienne Ghys 的报告讲述了 Artur Avila 的工作 从牛顿 (Newton) 就有的, 有了一个微分方程, 想法设法把解找出来. 这取得了相当的成功. …

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Maryam Mirzakhani: the first female mathematician to be awarded the prestigious fields medal prize

Maryam Mirzakhani, 37 岁, 刚刚在第二十七届国际数学家大会(ICM 2014)开幕式上, 从韩国女总统朴槿惠手中接过菲尔兹奖章. Mirzakhani 是首位荣获 fields medal 的女性. Mirzakhani 在 IMO 表现杰出. References Erica Klarreich, A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces, August 12, 2014

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ICM 2014—a female Fields Medallist?

明天上午(韩国时间, 东九区时间)九点, ICM 2014 会准时在韩国首尔(Coex , Seoul , Korea)开幕. 依惯例, 开幕式上会为引人注目的 Fields Medal 获得者颁发奖章. 坊间流传的一个(如若发生)会载入历史的传奇是: 本届 ICM 会有一个女性数学家获得 Fields Medal! 这真是一个令人振奋的消息! 全世界的数学工作者屏住呼吸兴奋的等待着亲眼目睹见证这个激动人心的时刻! Maryam Mirzakhani(born May 1977) is an Iranian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (since September 1, …

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Manjul Bhargava, the BSD conjecture and Fields medal

Conjecture There exist elliptic curve groups \(E(\Bbb Q)\) of arbitrarily large rank. 用 \(r\) 表示 \(\Bbb Q\) 上的椭圆曲线 \(E\) 的秩—the rank of the Mordell–Weil group \(E(\Bbb Q)\). 一个悬而未决的著名难题是: \(r\) 是否可以任意大? Martin-McMillen 2000 …

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Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie, Terence Tao and Richard Taylor receive inaugural breakthrough prize in mathematics

Art Levinson Steps Down as Chair of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, Succeeded by Cori Bargmann Online Nominations For 2015 Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics and Life Sciences are …

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