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digital55··on Six Math Essentials
Terence Tao: Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials“, which will cover six of the fundamental concepts in mathematics.
digital55··on In the eye of a chicken, a new state of matter comes into view (2014)
This was written up in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hyperuniformity-found-in-bird...
digital55··on Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality
A simple proof of the Gaussian correlation conjecture extended to multivariate gamma distributions by Thomas Royen: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1028.pdf
digital55··on U.S. 19th in science, 31st in math out of 35 OECD countries
2015 PISA results for U.S.: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-2015-United-States.pdf
digital55··on The Singular Mind of Terry Tao
Though Zhang did get a profile in TNY: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

And quite a bit of news coverage: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130519-unheralded-mathemati...

digital55··on Where Did the Universe Come From?
The video mentions that physicists are looking for the "ripples" (gravitational waves) that would prove inflation, and while they haven't found them yet, they seem to be getting closer to detecting them.
digital55··on Where Did the Universe Come From?
David Kaplan also made Particle Fever: http://particlefever.com/
digital55··on Renormalization: A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
This is the paper in question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831
digital55··on ‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
This is the Planck analysis on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738
digital55··on 2014 Fields Medals announced
In-depth profiles and videos about all 4 Fields medalists here: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-...
digital55··on Terence Tao Proposes Fluid New Path in Navier-Stokes Problem
Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf