Exploring Causal Inference for Business Decisions
(B) I had the great privilege, while being a student at UCLA, to have Professor Judea Pearl as a professor. A few years after I graduated from UCLA, Professor Pearl […]
Prof. Daskalakis Winning the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Nevanlinna Prize laureate is announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
Prof. Birkar, Figalli, Scholze, and Venkatesh Winning the 2018 Fields Medals
(T) Every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the Fields Medal laureates are announced. This week, at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced […]
The Shape of Data
(T) Data has shape. Shape reveals a pattern. That pattern provides insights into the data. This is what and why Topology Data Analysis (TDA) does. TDA attempts to find the […]
Changing the World after 50!
(E) The New Yorker has an excellent article “The Pursuit of Beauty” and a fun video to watch this week about the life of Yitang Zhang, from the University of New […]
Prof. Mirzakhani Avila Bhargava and Hairer Winning the 2014 Fields Medals
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Medals or they solve a challenging problem. This year winners of the Fields Medals, awarded to the new generation […]
Mathematics is Still Essential for Science and Technology to Progress
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Metals or they solve a challenging problem. This week the four Field Metals winners, the equivalent of the Noble Prize […]
Fractal Geometry Beautiful Simple and Powerful
(E) Fractal Geometry establishes the repetition of geometric patterns at different scales so common in nature around us. Stones look like rocks and rocks like mountains. Small branches look like […]
