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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 04th, 2018, Riocentro, International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, ICM 2018, na foto: Maksym Radziwill foto: Davi Campana/R2
An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Maryam Mirzakhani, a Harvard-educated mathematician and professor at Stanford University in California, was one of four winners announced by the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at its conference in Seoul.
"This is a great honour. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians," Professor Mirzakhani said.
"I am sure there will be many more women winning this kind of award in coming years."
Read more:http://j.mp/1sW5iey
As an 8-year-old, Maryam Mirzakhani used to tell herself stories about the exploits of a remarkable girl. Every night at bedtime, her heroine would become mayor, travel the world or fulfill some other grand destiny.
Today, Mirzakhani — a 37-year-old mathematics professor at Stanford University — still writes elaborate stories in her mind. The high ambitions haven’t changed, but the protagonists have: They are hyperbolic surfaces, moduli spaces and dynamical systems. In a way, she said, mathematics research feels like writing a novel. “There are different characters, and you are getting to know them better,” she said. “Things evolve, and then you look back at a character, and it’s completely different from your first impression.”
Read more:http://j.mp/VmtyJz
A friend and a former colleague in the Penn State Math department. He is enjoying retirement by dividing his year between Maine and Florida and doing good photography (www.flickr.com/photos/richardbmansfield/).
Nanjing (Jiangsu) 2010 - Prof. Yao Yijun commenting the photo exhibition "Les Déchiffeurs, voyage en mathématiques" at the Avant-Garde Library, in Nanjing. These pictures are showing the mathematicians from the IHES (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques) at work. They where displayed during the Shanghai Expo 2010 and are now travelling around China thanks to the Alliance Française schools network.
The niche overlooking the King's Bath contains a statue of Bladud, the mythical founder of Bath, erected in the seventeenth century (or possibly earlier). The inscription below the statue reads:
BLADUD SON OF LUDHUDIBRAS | EIGHTH KING OF THE BRITANS | FROM BRUTE, A GREAT PHILOSOPHER | AND MATHEMATICIAN BRED AT | ATHENS AND RECORDED THE FIRST | DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF | THESE BATHS EIGHT HUNDRED | SIXTY THREE YEARS BEFORE | CHRIST. THAT IS TWO THOUSAND | FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO YEARS | TO THE PRESENT YEAR 1699
[don't believe a word of it, including the year - it's a load of baloney]
The arch shown here was part of the second-century spring building.
"The greatest logician of his time lived here as a student of mathematics and philosophy from July 4, 1928 - November 5, 1929." Lange Gasse 72, 8th District, Vienna
(they're thinking so hard, they're out of focus)
L to R: Uli Walther, Anton Leykin, Anurag Singh, Graham Leuschke.
At far left: Chris Mueller, Joe Stubbs (?), Ananth Harihan.
From about the Leverhulme Trust, artist (pictured top right?) and subject unknown (pictured twice - painted and reflected?)
Maybe somebody else knows who the artist and subject are?
Nanjing (Jiangsu) 2010 - Prof. Yao Yijun commenting the photo exhibition "Les Déchiffeurs, voyage en mathématiques" at the Avant-Garde Library, in Nanjing. These pictures are showing the mathematicians from the IHES (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques) at work. They where displayed during the Shanghai Expo 2010 and are now travelling around China thanks to the Alliance Française schools network.
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Bletchley Park. Hut 3.
Bletchley Park, Home of the Codebreakers, is one of the cornerstones of British History during WWII. Its story being told the world over through the life and death, of Alan Turing (Mathematician and computer scientist). The most recognised films, Enigma (2001) and The Imitation Game (2014). I found Bletchley Park to be so interesting and fascinating. The more you learn, the more you want to discover. It's one of those places where you just have to visit to get a sense of what was going on in secrecy, during wartimes.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two (WWII), producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
Hut 3's significance is principally historic. It was an important building in the early phase of Bletchley Park, which is renowned for its part in this breaking of the German Enigma code, and in contributing to the Allied victory (especially in the Battle of the Atlantic). It was in Hut 3 that from June 1940 crucial analysis of decrypted German army and air force communications took place.
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