OT: Math Knot Theory solved (bike included

[buddybikes]

https://www.wired.com/story/a-grad-student-solved-the-epic-conway-knot-problem-in-a-week/

Can't remotely comprehend .0001% of this but liked the story and nice fall bike picture

[Onno]

My wife understands this! I'll forward her the story. Thanks for posting!

[maj]

:confused:

:crap:

:mad:

Math is stupid

:cool:

[unterhausen]

I just sent that link to my son, he's a math grad student. Don't think that's the kind of thing he works on. But I told him if he ever gets an article like this done about him, he needs to get his picture taken on a bicycle. Or maybe a surfboard.

[reuben]

I have a math degree, but stuff like that was always way beyond my ability.

The best work of people like Hilbert, Reimann, the Bernoullis, and Laplace was always beyond my ability, even as I progressed.

A biography of Paul Erdos turned out to be an interesting and surprisingly popular read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers)

Of course, as in other fields, we lose some of our very best far, far too early.

Maryam Mirzakhani:

Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14 [2017]. She had been battling breast cancer since 2013; the disease spread to her liver and bones in 2016. Mirzakhani was 40 years old. She died at Stanford Hospital.
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She attended an all-girls high school in Tehran, led by a principal unbowed by the fact that no girl had ever competed for Iran’s International Mathematical Olympiad team. Mirzakhani first gained international recognition during the 1994 and 1995 competitions. In 1994, she earned a gold medal. In 1995, she notched a perfect score and another gold medal.
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Her 2004 dissertation was a masterpiece. In it, she solved two longstanding problems. Either solution would have been newsworthy in its own right, according to Benson Farb, a mathematician at the University of Chicago, but then Mirzakhani connected the two into a thesis described as "truly spectacular." It yielded papers in each of the top three mathematics journals.

“The majority of mathematicians will never produce something as good,” Farb said at the time. “And that’s what she did in her thesis.”

https://news.stanford.edu/2017/07/15/maryam-mirzakhani-stanford-mathematician-and-fields-medal-winner-dies/

[Peter P.]

I read the article.

Didn't understand it.

Then I tried smoking some dope before I re-read the article.

I still didn't understand it.

[fiamme red]

I like the sliceness (whatever that is) of her bike. :)

I've studied topology on the undergraduate level, but this stuff is far above me.

[tomato coupe]

Of course, as in other fields, we lose some of our very best far, far too early.

Maryam Mirzakhani: Stanford mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died Friday, July 14 [2017].
People on this forum probably don't know that the Fields Medal is the highest award in the field of Mathematics. It is often compared to the Nobel Prize, but it is only awarded every 4 years so, in some ways, it's harder to win than the Nobel Prize.

[tuxbailey]

What a cool story.

I don't understand any of the math mentioned in the article, but cool story and bravo for her.

[saab2000]

:confused:

:crap:

:mad:

Math is stupid

:cool:

No. Math is essentially everything.

[54ny77]

very cool!

thx for the link.