His work on the twin primes conjecture and the stability of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in particular this year have been tremendous, not to mention his proposal of a solution to the Erdos Discrepancy Problem. With a regularly updated blog and praises from journalists such as Gareth Cook in a profile written in The New York Times Magazine, Terrence Tao is currently one of the most famous mathematicians. The US team, who finished first, had a combined scored of 185, which just edged out the China team’s score of 181 and the Republic of Korea’s third place score of 161. IMO scores are based on the number of points scored by individual team members on six problems, which are taken in sets of three in 4 and a half hour sessions over two days.
The 56th International Mathem atics Olympiad (IMO) was held last summer in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Tiling has great applications to packing problems and these discoveries could aid in increasing efficiency. Pentagons, in general, are of huge mathematical interest as the are the only ‘-gons’ that are not fully understood. In 2015 they found a new pentagon that tiles the plane. His struggles with his illness and recovery were detailed in the book and Academy Award winning film ‘A Beautiful Mind’.Ĭasey Mann, Jennifer McLoud and David Von Derau are researchers at the University of Washington Bothell. However, in 1959, he began developing a mental illness: paranoid schizophrenia. His most notable achievement was winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994 with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. On May 23rd 2015 – a day after receiving the 2015 Abel Prize in Oslo for his work with Louis Nirenberg on nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis – he and his wife, Alicia, died in a car accident in New Jersey as they were returning home. Although we are well into the first month of 2016, I thought for today’s post I would look back on the top stories of maths in the media during 2015.
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