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Bott's most famous contribution to mathematics is the Bott Periodicity Theorem, which he discovered in 1956. It was the first, and in a sense the only explanation of the homotopy groups of an important space, in this case, of all-invertiable matrices. He also found a periodic structure in these homotopy groups...
...were all recorded in China. Zhang Heng, of the Han Dynasty, invented a seismograph to determine the location of earthquakes, and the celestial globe that showed the movement of the sun, moon and other stars. Mathematicians in the pre-Qin days put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 3.1415926. China's silk-weaving, porcelain-making, metallurgy and ship-building reached the world's best...
...love. Scrolled across the back of his room is a poster depicting a graph resembling the output from a seismograph. "It's the Riemann zeta function on the critical line," says Kedlaya. Apparently, solving a problem relating to the function is tantamount in prestige to proving Fermat's Last Theorem...
Taylor, who calls himself a "pure mathematician" and has done work in number theory and representation theory, played a significant role in developing the recent solution to Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had baffled mathematicians since the seventeenth century...
Twenty-nine year old professor Elkies is the youngest professor ever granted tenure by Harvard. At the age of 20, he gained celebrity by contributed to unraveling the mystery of Fermat's last theorem, a problem which had baffled mathematicians for more than 200 years...