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???Stunning??? Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1437+ words) DVDP for Quanta Magazine The week before Christmas 2025, five mathematicians were holed up in a classroom at ETH Zurich. The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough. The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin (opens a…...
Graduate Student Proves the Fractal Uncertainty Principle
1+ mon, 14+ hour ago (1532+ words) Ada Zejun Shen/Quanta Magazine At the quantum scale, tiny particles behave in bizarre ways. One reason for this is the uncertainty principle, which says that the more you know about where a quantum particle is, the less you can…...
John Pardon Wins the 2026 Fields Medal for Work in Symplectic Geometry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1563+ words) John Pardon is known to his colleagues and students as quiet but insightful. As one formerstudent put it, “You really have to go fishing for his knowledge.” Several eminent mathematicians tell different versions of the same story about John Pardon....
Yu Deng Wins the Fields Medal 2026 for His Work on the Random Data Problem
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1865+ words) Yu Deng faced waves of uncertainty and doubt before attempting the work that would earn him a Fields Medal. Freedom and restraint seem like opposing forces, but to Yu Deng, they go hand in hand. “People thought this was, I…...