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... Vladimir Voevodsky and his collaborators have provided us with a very interesting candidate-category of motives: a category (of sheaves relative to an extraordinarily fine Grothendieck-style topology on the category of schemes) which in some intuitive sense softens algebraic geometry so as to allow for a good notion of homotopy in an algebro-geometric setup and is sufficiently directly connected to concrete algebraic geometry to have already yielded some extraordinary applications. The quest for a full theory of motives is a potent driving force in complex analysis, algebraic geometry, automorphic representation theory, the study of L functions, and arithmetic. It will continue to be so throughout the current century.

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Number theory swarms with bugs, waiting to bite the tempted flower-lovers who, once bitten, are inspired to excesses of effort!

Barry Mazur

In the history of the concept of number, number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now.... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur

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Born: December 19, 1937 (age 87)

Bio: Barry Charles Mazur is an American mathematician and a Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.

Known for:

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis (2015)
Imagining Numbers (2003)
Kolyvagin systems (2004)

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