Eighty mathematicians have arrived at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) to study two kinds of mathematics -- symplectic and tropical geometry -- that have flourished dramatically in the last 30 years.

 

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Seven American high-school girls are celebrating the medals they've won at an Olympic competition that's about math skills -- not sports.

 

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When he arrived as a graduate student at the University of Chicago after World War II, Isadore Singer thought that he would study mathematics for only a year or two and then return to physics. As it turned out, he would become one of the most effective ambassadors between the two disciplines.

 

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A trio of mathematicians has solved a 45-year-old mystery about the shape of high-dimensional spaces by showing that all "framed" shapes of dimension higher than 126 — shapes that are impossible to visualize, but that can be described by equations — are related in a certain fundamental way to spheres.

 

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In honor of Atiyah's many achievements, the Simons Foundation has endowed the Michael Atiyah Chair in Mathematical Sciences at the American University of Beirut.

 

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The human brain presents the ultimate biological puzzle. How, then, does one figure out what goes wrong in people afflicted with autism, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurological disorders? Daniel Geschwind's approach to the problem: think big.

 

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Enthusiasts, artists and esteemed scientists gathered to celebrate the ways in which science enriches our everyday lives at the world's largest party held in honor of science.

The International Mathematical Union and the Chern Medal Foundation are launching a major new prize in mathematics, the Chern Medal Award. The Award is established in memory of the outstanding mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern.

Stony Brook University breaks ground for the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

The 2009 Abel Prize, considered mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize, was awarded to Mikhail Gromov for his contributions to geometry.

 

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