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2 days ago · Barry Mazur (c) IHES. Gretchen and Barry Mazur have been coming to IHES since 1962, the year the Institute first moved to its current location in Bures-sur-Yvette, south of Paris. Barry recalls: “When I first came to IHES, I knew almost no mathematics. I am grateful that I learned so much and felt the inspiration of this very special Institute.
2 hours ago · By definition, the Serre–Frobenius group carries the data of the embedding into the |$\textsf{USp}_{2g}(\mathbf{C})$|, which in turn is captured by the relations among the Frobenius eigenvalues.
5 days ago · A few items, all involving Peter Scholze in one way or another: A seminar in Bonn on Scholze’s geometrization of real local Langlands is finishing up next week. This is working out details of ideas that Scholze presented at the IAS Emmy Noether lectures back in March.
5 days ago · Physical Intuition vs. “Math” Posted on June 29, 2024 by woit. A common theme in discussions online of the problems of fundamental theoretical physics is that the subject has gotten “lost in math”, losing touch with “physical intuition”. In such discussions, when people refer to “math” it’s hard to figure out what they mean by this.
4 days ago · Pour ceux que ces questions mathématiques laissent froids, Barry Mazur fait un constant parallèle entre l’art de la poésie et l’imagination créative des mathématiques. Les œuvres de Shakespeare, Kafka, Keats, illustrent les similitudes de l’écriture poétique et de l’invention" mathématique.
4 days ago · Erdős in 1992. Paul Erdős (1913–1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He considered mathematics to be a social activity and often collaborated on his papers, having 511 joint authors, many of whom also have their own collaborators.
5 days ago · A Few Items. Posted on July 2, 2024 by woit. A few items, all involving Peter Scholze in one way or another: A seminar in Bonn on Scholze’s geometrization of real local Langlands is finishing up next week. This is working out details of ideas that Scholze presented at the ….
