The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.
After German mathematician Gerd Faltings proved the Mordell conjecture in 1983, he was awarded the Fields Medal, often described as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics.” The conjecture describes the set ...
If you could travel back to prehistoric times, what questions would you leave behind to help ancestors develop life science? Listen to what Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Paul Nurse, said ...
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