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As a schoolboy, I put little effort into my homework. But a long night wrestling with Euclidean geometry led to a career in nuclear physics - and a more resilient personality
Press release: Hugo Duminil-Copin, Full Professor in the Section of Mathematics at UNIGE, has been awarded the prestigious Fields Medal. The Lake Geneva region has been recognised twice: Professor Maryna Viazovska of the EPFL is also a medalist.
Maryna Viazovska has received a Fields Medal, a prestigious honor often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, for her work on the sphere-packing problem in 8 and 24 dimensions. Previously, the problem had been solved for only three dimensions or fewer. Another Fields Medal is awarded to University of Geneva mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin.
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An obituary for the African-American mathematician who played a key role in landing men on the moon.
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