{"id":7667,"date":"2015-04-15T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2015-04-19T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T19:05:17","slug":"the-lady-gaga-of-french-mathematicians-comes-stateside-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7667","title":{"rendered":"The Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians Comes Stateside, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cédric Villani is in town today, giving a talk at the French consulate<\/a>. He’ll discuss his book, recently translated into English (I wrote a bit about it here<\/a>). Yesterday, despite the lack of suitable bread and cheese, he was in Princeton, where he gave a public lecture at the IAS<\/a>. The New Yorker has a story about him by Thomas Lin, entitled The Lady Gaga of French Mathematicians Comes Stateside<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re not listening to Villani tonight, you could be watching a PBS Nova program on mathematics, The Great Math Mystery<\/a>. Among the mathematicians interviewed will be my colleague Dusa McDuff. As for the question on the PBS site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

the answer is the latter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What some mathematicians might consider the “Great Math Mystery” is whether Mochizuki really has a proof of the abc conjecture. There finally will be the topic of a workshop involving experts in the field<\/a>, to be held this December in Oxford. Still no paper from Go Yamashita about this, but here<\/a> you can find some photographs of the boards from his talks in Kyoto last month. Mochizuki himself has a new paper<\/a>, inspired by conversations with Fesenko.<\/p>\n

Also in New York this week, Bjorn Poonen will be speaking on Thursday<\/a>. His topic is a heuristic argument that there is a finite bound on the rank of elliptic curves. For notes from a talk of his about this last year, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: The Villani IAS talk is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nUpdate<\/strong>: At David Mumford’s blog he has a long and very interesting posting about the state of mathematical research publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: One more piece of math news. Dan Rockmore has set up a public version of his Concinnitas Project, which lets people post, with explanation, a picture of their choice of a “most beautiful mathematical expression”. See here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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