combinatorics
Americannoun
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He began pulling in different areas of math outside of combinatorics, including finite geometry, algebra and probability.
From Science Daily
They enlisted software developer Joseph Samuel Myers and University of Arkansas mathematician Chaim Goodman-Strauss, who had both worked with tiling and combinatorics in the past.
From Scientific American
Advised by Amit Sahai, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, the project has already paired 171 incarcerated people in 27 states with a mentor to work on topics from combinatorics to abstract algebra.
From Scientific American
In July, his work in geometric combinatorics won him the Fields Medal, given every four years to mathematicians younger than 40 and known as the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics.”
From Washington Post
There, he came to prominence in the field of combinatorics, the number of ways things can be shuffled.
From New York Times
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