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Remembering M.S. Narasimhan, a Versatile and Fearless Mathematician

S. Ramanan 23/05/2021

His attitude helped him address problems in various fields,...

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Duo Shares Abel Prize for Bridging Math and Computer Science

The Wire Staff 18/03/2021

The pair will share a purse of Rs 6.42...

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Freeman Dyson and the Challenges of the First Nuclear Age

Abhijnan Rej 07/03/2020

In the final assessment, Freeman Dyson's life demonstrates that...

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Freeman Dyson, the Subversive Physicist Who Imagined New Futures for Humanity

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/02/2020

Dyson's life, work, thought and writing is a testament...

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Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win ‘Math’s Nobel’

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/03/2019

In the last 17 years, 19 men have won...

Michael Atiyah, Hermann Weyl, Isadore M Singer, VK Patodi, Nicolas Bourbaki, Harish-Chandra, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, Armand Borel, Raoul Bott, Abel Prize, Fields Medal, number theory, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, algebra, geometry, John von Neumann, James Clerk Maxwell, Scotland, Claude Chevalley, Pythagoras, differential calculus, foundations of logic, Kurt Gödel, fundamental physics, Alan Turing,

Michael Atiyah, Mathematician Who Went Farther Than Most by the Light of Beauty

C.S. Aravinda, Bhāvanā Magazine 12/01/2019

He received the Fields Medal in 1966 and the...

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Interview: ‘There’s No Conflict Between Lack of Evidence of String Theory and Work Being Done on It’

Sandhya Ramesh 07/01/2018

An interview with the notable physicist Nathan Seiberg on...