r/Documentaries • u/OmicronCeti • 10d ago

Science 2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Math (2024) We investigate three of 2024’s biggest breakthroughs in mathematics, including a better way to pack spheres in high dimensions, a new way to avoid forming patterns of numbers, and an 800-page proof of the so-called geometric Langlands conjecture. [15:12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwVSeXswWZY
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u/OmicronCeti 10d ago

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-math-20241216/