Math Drudge

University of Newcastle mathematician and Laureate Professor Jonathan Borwein is one of 17 scientists across Australia in 2010 to be elected to the Fellowship of the prestigious Academy of Science.

The Fellowship comprises Australia’s top scientists, recognised for research that has had a profound impact on the world’s scientific knowledge in fields including medicine, physics, . . . → Read More: Borwein elected to Australian Academy of Science

On 8 Mar 2010 Jonathan M. Borwein gave the First Plenary Lecture on “Exploratory Experimentation and Computation” (Lecture) at the 2010 German Mathematical Society meetings in Munich. An associated paper, co-authored with David H. Bailey, is here: PDF.

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The mathematical research community is facing a great challenge to re-evaluate the role of proof . . . → Read More: Borwein gives lecture “Exploratory Experimentation and Computation”

On 3 Mar 2010 David H. Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab gave a “distinguished seminar” at the University of Delaware entitled “Computing as the Third Mode of Scientific Discovery.” The full lecture is available here: Online presentation.

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The latest state-of-the-art scientific computer systems have achieved over 1 “Pflop/s” (one million billion floating-point arithmetic . . . → Read More: Bailey gives lecture “Computing as the Third Mode of Scientific Discovery”