{"id":11170,"date":"2019-08-27T19:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:46:16","slug":"some-math-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11170","title":{"rendered":"Some Math News"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Columbia colleague Patrick Gallagher passed away a few months ago at the age of 84. He had only recently retired, and for many years was the longest serving member of the department and an important part of its institutional memory. On October 10 there will be a memorial conference here at Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s too bad Pat didn’t live to see the latest from Terry Tao<\/a>, who describes recent results<\/a> which are related to old work of Gallagher’s<\/a> by “Our proof of this theorem proceeds more or less along the same lines as Gallagher\u2019s calculation, but now with k<\/em> allowed to grow slowly with x<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Turning to other topics, Peter Scholze continues to come up with new ideas about the foundations of mathematics at a pace far too fast for me to fool myself into thinking I might be able to follow what he’s doing. In recent months he has run a course on “Condensed Mathematics”<\/a>, which involves new ideas about topology developed with Dustin Clausen. For a video of a recent talk where he explains this, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the Langlands\/representation theory front, some interesting things are:<\/p>\n