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Blackboard Jungle

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…

Fields

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…