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The 2010 meeting of the International Mathematical Union is being held in Hyderabad, India. At this meeting, Ingrid Daubechies (of wavelet fame) was appointed President, the first woman ever afforded than honor. Also at this meeting the Fields Medal, long regarded as the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, was awarded to four mathematicians: Elon . . . → Read More: Fields Medals awarded In honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th birthday in May 2011, a workshop on “Computational and Analytical Mathematics” will be held at the IRMACS Center of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. Here is a synopsis of the upcoming meeting, taken from Having authored more than a dozen books and more than 300 publications, Jonathan Borwein . . . → Read More: Workshop to honor Jonathan Borwein’s 60th birthday On 6 August 2010, Vinay Deolalikar, a mathematician working at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alo, California, distributed a note to some colleagues claiming that he had solved the “P not NP” problem, a most famous and potentially far-reaching question at the nexus of mathematics and computer science. Deolalikar’s manuscript is available here: Deolalikar paper. The Clay . . . → Read More: Has the “P not NP” problem been solved? I am a great fan of the intelligent use of technology. Indeed, I like David Bailey have spent a great deal of my career advocating just such use. The story below is an unexaggerated description of one of the most frustrating encounters I have ever had with a major company. I am left wondering whether Telstra . . . → Read More: Why I love my Telco Prof. Jonathan Borwein of the University of Newcastle, Australia, will give the “public lecture” at the upcoming meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society on “The life of Pi.” Here are some details: Announcement Abstract: The desire to understand pi, the challenge, and originally the need, to calculate ever more accurate values of pi, the ratio . . . → Read More: Borwein to present lecture on “The life of Pi” Online article Details of methods used Synopsis: A pair of Japanese and US computer whizzes claim to have calculated pi to five trillion decimal places — a number which if verified eclipses the previous record set by a French software engineer. “We believe our achievement sets a new record,” Japanese system engineer Shigeru Kondo said, adding that the Frenchman’s . . . → Read More: Japanese and U.S. researchers compute pi to 5 trillion places The notion that humans often take actions and pursue goals due to subconscious desires and instincts dates back to Sigmund Freud, who suggested, among other things, that repressed sexual urges underlay some human behavior. Freud’s theories were later judged unreliable and largely nonfalsifiable. In any event, until recently it was assumed that conscious decisions . . . → Read More: Latest research indicates we unconsciously pursue goals Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman announced today that he is rejecting the $1 million Clay Mathematics Institute prize for his recent solution of the Poincare conjecture. Perelman has been quoted saying he believes his contribution in proving the conjecture was no greater than that of a U.S. mathematician named Richard Hamilton, who first suggested an approach . . . → Read More: Perelman rejects $1 million Clay award Many readers will be familiar with the Jeopardy! television show, which is the most popular quiz show in North America. One of the present bloggers confesses to watching it almost every weekday evening when not on travel (and hardly any other television program). The other blogger is also a keen armchair contestant. In this show, clues . . . → Read More: IBM’s “Watson” to compete against Jeopardy champs David H. Bailey will present three talks in Spain in June 2010: “High-Precision Computation: Mathematical Physics and Dynamics,” Joint “Computing as the Third Mode of Scientific and Mathematical Discovery,” Barcelona Supercomputer Center (3 Jun 2010): PDF |
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