Well, it seems that I have enough time to catch up with my reading. A good dose of Mathematics Today, Physics World and RSA Journal 🤓

Well, it seems that I have enough time to catch up with my reading. A good dose of Mathematics Today, Physics World and RSA Journal 🤓
Now reading: “Life on the Edge: the coming of age of quantum biology” by Jim Al-khalili and Johnjoe McFadden.
Now reading: “She has her mother’s laugh: the powers, perversions and potential of heredity” by David Grann.
A great time being a tourist at home. Last day of March with sunshine and a spring on my step.
Happy Pi Day 2019
It is that time of year when we have an opportunity to look back and see what we have achieved while taking an opportunity to see what the next year will bring. This may be of interest just to me, so please accept my apologies… Here we go:
In no particular order:
Looking forward to 2019, learning and developing more.
This is the time of year where this is exactly what happens to my calendar… a blur…
A reblog from Quanta Magazine:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantas-year-in-math-and-computer-science-2018-20181221/
Several mathematicians under the age of 30, and amateur problem-solvers of all ages, made significant contributions to some of the most difficult questions in math and theoretical computer science.
Youth ruled the year in mathematics. The Fields Medals — awarded every four years to the top mathematicians no older than 40 — went out to four individuals who have left their marks all over the mathematical landscape. This year one of the awards went to Peter Scholze, who at 30 became one of the youngest ever to win. But at times in 2018, even 30 could feel old.
Two students, one in graduate school and the other just 18, in two separate discoveries, remapped the borders that separate quantum computers from ordinary classical computation. Another graduate student proved a decades-old conjecture about elliptic curves, a type of object that has fascinated mathematicians for centuries. And amateur mathematicians of all ages rose up to make significant contributions to long-dormant problems.
But perhaps the most significant sign of youth’s rise was when Scholze, not a month after the Fields Medal ceremony, made public (along with a collaborator) his map pointing to a hole in a purported proof of the famous abc conjecture. The proof, put forward six years ago by a mathematical luminary, has baffled most mathematicians ever since.