Mathematicians have proved a key building block of the Langlands programme, sometimes referred to as a “grand unified theory” of maths due to the deep links it proposes between seemingly distant ...
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...
In 2007 a documentary chronicling the selection process and training regimen for the British team at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) aired on BBC to much acclaim. Unsurprisingly, ...