Category Archives: Mathematicians

Emily Riehl

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Emily Riehl, a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University, won a huge prize from the university recently: the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award. Riehl works in category theory related to homotopy theory, such as $(\infty,1)$-categories.  Her work has roots in earlier work … Continue reading →

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Louis Nirenberg

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Edward Dunne

Louis Nirenberg died January 26, 2020 at the age of 94.  He made tremendous contributions to the field of partial differential equations and global analysis.  

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Masaki Kashiwara awarded 2018 Kyoto Prize

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Masaki Kashiwara has been awarded the 2018 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences. 

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Happy 119th Birthday, Otto Neugebauer

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Every year on or around Otto Neugebauer’s birthday (May 26),  Mathematical Reviews has a little birthday party for him, the founder of Mathematical Reviews.  I like it because it is a chance to remind ourselves that our founder did not give … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Carl Friedrich Gauß

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Google is honoring Carl Friedrich Gauss today (April 30, 2018) with a Google Doodle, in honor of his birthday.  Although Mathematical Reviews didn’t start until 1940, or 84 years after Gauss had died, he has an author profile in MathSciNet and … Continue reading →

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Robert P. Langlands receives the Abel Prize

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Robert Langlands has been awarded the Abel Prize for 2018.  His work known as the Langlands Program is widely reported on in the news items for the prize, and justifiably so.   On a very deep level, the program relates number … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Stephen Hawking was one of the most gifted and most famous scientists of the last fifty years.   His science demonstrated a blend of technical ability and intuition.  Hawking’s best-known results concern black holes.  His earliest work was on singularities in … Continue reading →

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Andrew Ranicki

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Andrew Ranicki has died. Ranicki was a topologist, with particular expertise in algebraic surgery.  Indeed, Ranicki had the unusual title of Professor of Algebraic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh.  (Andrew was a special case for almost everything.)  His two … Continue reading →

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Juan Meza, new Director of DMS

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Edward Dunne

Juan Meza has been appointed as the new director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of the NSF, as of February 20, 2018.  Meza works in scientific computing and numerical analysis. Before coming to the NSF, he was at University of … Continue reading →

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Emmanuel Candès – MacArthur Fellow

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Edward Dunne

Emmanuel Candès has won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.  The official announcement is here.  The LA Times has a nice write-up.   Both the Los Angeles Times and the MacArthur announcement highlight Candès’s work on compressed sensing.  Terry Tao has a spot-on … Continue reading →

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