Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic.

Is there a way to quantify and model the phenomena of awareness, feelings, thoughts, and selfhood?

Wolfram's Version 14 includes expansive connections to and from LLMs. New learning tools, including courses and books. Plus, functionality advances in math, core language, video objects, trees, finite fields, Knowledgebase, systems engineering, graphics.…

The First Year Probability lectures are for Oxford students of Mathematics, Computer Science and joint degree courses between Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics and Philosophy.

Lecture 1 (the first of six we are showing) takes the intuitive notion…

Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. Its defining method can briefly be described as "going backwards from the theorems to the axioms", in contrast to the…

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After a few more examples of counting problems, Lecture 2 (of six we are showing) turns to the general axiomatic setup of probability theory, which gives rise to the notion of a probability space.

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The Abel Prize is awarded by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, on behalf of the Ministry of Education. The President at The Academy, Lise Øvreås, will announce The Abel Prize laureate 2024.

Who will be this year's recipient(s) of The Abel Prize?…

Lecture by professor Michel Talagrand, recipient of the 2022 Stefan Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 8th September 2022, Warsaw.

Resources for book introduction to optimization on smooth manifolds

The Mandelbrot set is a special shape, with a fractal outline. Use a computer to zoom in on the set’s jagged boundary and no matter how deep you explore, you’ll always see near-copies of the original set — an infinite, dizzying cascade of self-similarity…

Solve national-level math challenges using artificial intelligence models

Quick math-personality quiz: What is seven-and-one-fourth minus three-fourths, expressed as a mixed number (a whole number plus a proper fraction)? What matters isn’t what answer you get but how yo…

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Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes.

Kevin Buzzard discusses the project to prove Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean.

Introduction
Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) is the claim that some abstract equation has no solutions in positive integers.
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Name: James Simons
Title: Origin of Chern-Simons
Date: 2011-07-28 @ 10:00 AM

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An online interactive introduction to the study of complex analysis.