by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Well, this is embarrassing. I didn’t realize Zhang left UNH last year and is now a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, which called him a “celebrity mathematician” in making the announcement. No wonder UNH didn’t...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Three years ago a soft-spoken calculus lecturer at UNH named Yitang “Tom” Zhang suddenly became world famous, at least within the world of research mathematics, for releasing a major breakthrough in the twin-prime conjecture (which guesses that there are...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
New Hampshire has more connections to modern mathematics research than you might think – Google the names John Kemeny, Ken Appel and Yitang “Tom” Zhang for a start – but here’s a link that is particularly surprising: Since last summer, the richest math prize in the...
by David Brooks | Sep 29, 2015 | Blog
Nobody from New Hampshire won a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation this year. Two winners were at Harvard, one at MIT, one (a poet) from Vermont. (List is here) Seven winners have had strong N.H. roots over the history of the award, including the...
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