Cleo Born Vladimir Reshetnikov Years active 2013–2015 Known for Providing answers to complex integrals on Stack Exchange Vladimir Reshetnikov (born 1979) is an Uzbekistani-American software developer and mathematician who became known for providing precise answers to complex mathematical integration problems without showing … Read more
I have been very fortunate in my successes, but it did not come without hard work. When we only talk about the successes, it can seem like good fortune. However, there have been many other occasions where things I have … Read more
Michel Talagrand is the 27th recipient of the Abel Prize, which was first awarded in 2003. Peter Badge / Typos1 / Abel Prize 2024 The 2024 Abel Prize—the mathematics world’s Nobel Prize equivalent—has been awarded to Michel Talagrand for his … Read more
Introduction It took a long time for Claire Voisin to fall in love with mathematics. That’s not to say she ever disliked the subject. Growing up in France — the 10th of 12 children — she enjoyed spending hours solving … Read more
The mathematician Ben Green of the University of Oxford has made a major stride toward understanding a nearly 100-year-old combinatorics problem, showing that a well-known recent conjecture is “not only wrong but spectacularly wrong,” as Andrew Granville of the University … Read more
Have things changed since you were a high school student trying to break into the male-dominated Math Olympiads? I faced explicit discouragement in high school, whereas today there is a lot of explicit encouragement. Nevertheless, I have seen people around … Read more
If you have a few chess sets at home, try the following exercise: Arrange eight queens on a board so that none of them are attacking each other. If you succeed once, can you find a second arrangement? A third? … Read more