Mathematics



PaperHive Conversations: Christian Schell

Christian Shell is a PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics /Einstein Institute/ and the Berlin School of Mathematics. He is researching in the field of numerical mathematical relativity and is among the first…



PaperHive Conversations: John Hammersley

John Hammersley has always been fascinated by science, space, exploration and technology. After completing a PhD in Mathematical Physics at Durham University in 2008, he went on to help design and build the world’s first driverless…


PaperHive Conversations: Karine Chemla

Dr. Karine Chemla, one of the plenary speakers during the 7ECM in Berlin, is a historian of mathematics from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Scientific Research National Center, in France. Her main studies include…


Maryna Viazovska

PaperHive Conversations: Maryna Viazovska

Dr. Maryna Viazovska from Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin recently published two papers in which she puts an end to a nearly 400 year old mathematics conjecture. The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimensions 8 and 24 were released just two weeks…


research

Research Collaboration: a Chain Reaction

Collaboration in research has been an essential element in developing new technologies throughout the entire human history. Passing on knowledge from generation to generation, each of which learning and improving it, is a never ending chain reaction of collaboration. In the 17th century,…