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Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis

Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

18 March 2020

The 2020 Abel prize was awarded to mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for their use of probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics
Mathematical universe

Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe

10 January 2020

Mathematicians have come up with a way to explore strange 3D spaces that could be related to the shape of the universe
Numbers on a screen

AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths

9 December 2019

Machine-learning algorithms are being used to tackle the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the fiendishly difficult Millennium Prize Problems

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