Monthly Archives: March 2017

Laure Saint-Raymond

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Edward Dunne

Laure Saint-Raymond is a mathematician working in partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, and statistical mechanics. She is a professor at l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (also known as Paris VI). In 2013, she became … Continue reading →

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Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Edward Dunne

Yves Meyer has been selected to win the 2017 Abel Prize. The citation is “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets”. His work is certainly well known within mathematics, especially within harmonic analysis and in … Continue reading →

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Karen Smith

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Edward Dunne

Karen Smith is a mathematician at the University of Michigan, which is where she also did her Ph.D. Her thesis was on tight closure, an important topic in commutative algebra. There is, of course, a lot of overlap between commutative algebra and … Continue reading →

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Quanta Magazine

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Edward Dunne

Quanta Magazine, from the Simons Foundation, has been publishing some excellent articles about mathematics. It is not a research journal, so Mathematical Reviews doesn’t cover it. Nevertheless, if you want to dig deeper into some of the mathematical issues discussed … Continue reading →