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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities
2+ week, 2+ day ago (217+ words) His awe-inspiring proof for the resolution of singularities — such as peaks, edges and self-crossings — revolutionized algebraic geometry....