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Harvard Perkins Professor of Mathematics John T. Tate said recently that although a number of mathematicians--including, himself--have solved specific cases of the conjecture. Faltings' work is far more broad, applying to all polynomial equations...
...changes the whole picture in number theory." Tate said. "We now know a lot more. The frontier has been pushed back." Faltings' breakthrough, he speculated, might help other researchers solve other problems related to the conjecture...
According to Tate and other math professors, the findings of Faltings--who they said visited Harvard in 1978 in an informal capacity and without any publicity--have prompted researchers to drop their own work and try to verify the new theory. Several mathematicians at Harvard and MIT met during late June and July to share their expertise and verity different parts of Faltings manuscript...
...Only someone with several 200-level math courses under his belt is able to understand the material. Tate said, adding that the work may eventually be simplified...
...paintings and oil sketches that went on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last week is the first such "retrospective" in the U.S. for 30 years. It is, necessarily, a modest affair compared with the immense Constable show at the Tate Gallery in 1976, which was the kind of exhibition that defines the image of an artist for a generation. Many favorites are not here, starting with The Hay Wain, the most reproduced landscape in English painting-a sort of vegetative Mona Lisa. But the show was curated by the world's leading Constable...