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Continued from Field of Dreams, Jan. 20, 2013. That post mentioned the March 2011 AMS Notices , an issue on mathematics education. In that issue was an interview with Abel…
Edward Frenkel recently claimed for Robert Langlands the discovery of a link between two "totally different" fields of mathematics— number theory and harmonic analysis. He implied that before Langlands, no…
Backstory: Frenkel's Metaphors and Waitressing for Godot. In a recent vulgarized presentation of the Langlands program, Edward Frenkel implied that number theory and harmonic analysis were, before Langlands came along, quite…
A scholium on the link to Pythagoras in this morning's previous post Figurate Numbers: For related number mysticism, see Chapter 8, "Magic Numbers," in Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden…
"In 1967, he [Langlands] came up with revolutionary insights tying together the theory of Galois groups and another area of mathematics called harmonic analysis. These two areas, which seem light years…
The search for 1984 at the end of last evening's post suggests the following Sunday meditation. My own contribution to this genre— A triangle-decomposition result from 1984: American…
From a recent attempt to vulgarize the Langlands program: "Galois’ work is a great example of the power of a mathematical insight…. And then, 150 years later, Langlands…
Continued from 24 hours ago. From this morning's 6 AM (ET) post… "… you never made a Twelfth Step call on an active alcoholic by yourself, unless the alkie…
"… the message is clear on what is the main accomplishment of 19th [century] mathematics: complex function theory, comprising almost half the book. The heart and soul of this theory…
* Update of 8 PM Nov. 19: The title refers to a work by Beckett. "There is nothing outside itself that Quad might be about." — Sue…