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FURSTENBERG AND MARGULIS TO SHARE THE ABEL PRIZE ON FOUNDING ORDER IN CHAOS

By Abid Amin Naeem Mathematicians who showed how an valued enough branch of the field could be employed to solve important problems share this year’s Abel Prize, the mathematics award which is equivalent to a Nobel. The Abel Prize for this year goes to the Professor Hillel Furstenberg, 84, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, […]

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MATHEMATICS IS EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYONE & LET’S CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MATHEMATICS

By: Abid Amin Naeem Even though everyone learns mathematics at school, it is difficult to define exactly what mathematics is. Clearly numbers, shapes and equations form part of it, but only a small part compared to the vast space of mathematical concepts and ideas. The best way to understand what mathematics is and what mathematicians […]