A fountainhead of intrigue
Recently, a Chinese-American mathematician named Yitang Zhang claimed to have resolved the Landau-Siegel zeroes conjecture, which is related to the Riemann hypothesis. (Specifically, disproving the co…
Bernhard Riemann
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Science v. tech, à la Cixin Liu
A fascinating observation by Cixin Liu in an interview in Public Books, to John Plotz and translated by Pu Wang (numbers added): … technology precedes science. (1) Way before the rise of modern scien…
Geometry's near-miss that wasn't
The extent of Euclidean geometry's imperfections only really came to light when physicists used Riemann's geometry to set up the theories of relativity.…