ICTP Math Section Blog

AIMS-IMAGINARY Workshop 2014

State: published,

created Nov 18, 2014 03:11 PM

One of the perks of working in mathematics is that I get to travel the world as part of my job. This time it was Cape Town, South Africa; I flew down there to participate in a workshop on maths ...

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Is knowledge a commodity?

by villegas, State: published,

created Nov 15, 2014 08:47 PM

At the Menao event (part of the 2014 ICM ) in Seoul last August, Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta from Cambridge University, gave a very interesting lecture. He argued that knowledge is indeed a ...

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More publishing trouble

by villegas, State: published,

created Nov 07, 2014 11:34 AM

Via Fabio Vlacci I heard of the issues with the Journal of K-theory. From The Aperiodical The rumours are true: the editors which in 2007 resigned from the journal K-Theory have now resigned ...

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An international mathematician for ICTP

by villegas, State: published,

created Nov 03, 2014 02:33 PM

My dear friend Don Zagier joins ICTP as Distinguished Staff Associate. Read all about it!

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It's eleven o'clock, do you know where your mathematical software is?

by villegas, State: published,

created Nov 03, 2014 02:12 PM

My ICTP colleague Ralph Gebauer mentioned to me this article . It is in German. The main point however is discussed in the paper by Antonio J. Durán, Mario Pérez und Juan L. Varona titled "The ...

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