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Photo by David Kelly Crow for the Office of Communications Princeton University mathematician Manjul Bhargava was awarded today the 2014 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics ...

(1) MANY attempts are now being made to formulate a system of geometry suitable to the immature minds of schoolboys, which will on one hand develop their reasoning faculties by some kind of logical ...

Princeton University mathematician Manjul Bhargava was awarded today the 2014 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, in recognition of his work in the geometry of numbers.