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Mathematicians Prove 30-Year-Old André-Oort Conjecture
- gavagai691 5y agoAnother huge advance in number theory--alongside the subconvexity result posted last month--in a vastly different area of the subject. 2021 was a great year for number theory. (This of course assumes both results are correct!)
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago> 2021 was a great year for number theory. Maybe it was because for the last two years everyone was stuck at home because of Covid. There are only so many Netflix movies/shows you can watch before you start playing around with number theory out of sheer boredom.
- gavagai691 5y agoThe people who write these kinds of papers, believe it or not, prefer to spend most of their time playing with numbers compared to watching Netflix. (This is not to say that they don't enjoy spending any time on the latter.)
- rbanffy 5y agoI use to joke Linux could only have been written in Finland, during winter.
- ximeng 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929935 Think this is the subconvexity one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790830 This one is also related to primes.
- seemaze 5y agoI am consistently impressed by the publication quality at Quanta Magazine. Their articles are a joy to read for an audience of any background. I also enjoy Aeon[0] and Psyche[1]. Can anyone recommend publishers of similar quality in other domains? [0] https://aeon.co https://aeon.co [1] https://psyche.co/ https://psyche.co/
- gavagai691 5y agoUnfortunately, I don't think anything matches Quanta for what they do (covering cutting-edge advances in science in an accurate and accessible manner). One of the things that really helps Quanta is that if there is an article about math, typically it is written by a mathematician (and likewise for other areas). For "softer" subjects, e.g. politics, history or law, the Atlantic is often similar in this regard, and I enjoy their articles.
- arrow7000 5y agoI like nautil.us also
- marto1 5y ago> To prove the André-Oort conjecture, Pila needed to show that a non-Shimura variety living inside a Shimura variety doesn’t have a lot of special points. This looks just so advanced to me. Is that how people sound when they talk about programming ?
- bluquark 5y agoNo, only functional programmers sound like this!
- xigoi 5y agoYes. >Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any other Git provider and deploy continuously. (from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/) >Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. (from https://kubernetes.io/ https://kubernetes.io/)
- bluquark 5y agoThe paragraphs you quoted are at least partially self-explanatory, mostly using common English words like "platform" in a metaphorical sense. Whereas the paragraph the grandparent quoted has several concepts that are opaquely named after mathematicians, providing not even a hint of what they might mean.
- alex_suzuki 5y agoI wonder how the authors perceive the world around them. Because after opening and skimming the PDF I certainly felt transported to a strange, alien place… with no resemblance of my own surroundings.