Yu Deng ’11 and Hong Wang PhD ’19 awarded Fields Medal

The Dark Night of Mathematics

Toán học đang đối mặt với cuộc khủng hoảng về sự thiếu hiểu biết sâu sắc, khi các nhà nghiên cứu ngày càng dựa vào máy tính và thuật toán thay vì tư duy trừu tượng thuần túy.

Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu sâu hơn về bản chất của công việc mình thực hành—những vấn đề không chỉ là viết mã mà còn là giải quyết những câu hỏi logic, khám phá nguyên lý và cách suy nghĩ như một nhà toán học, giúp nâng cao tư duy giải quyết vấn đề và sáng tạo trong công việc.

MIT honors employees with 2026 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Staff members receive MIT Excellence Awards, the Collier Medal, the Staff Award for Distinction in Service, and the Gordon Y. Billard Award for their exceptional support of the MIT community.

AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

Anthropic’s Fable 5 found a 216-character counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old maths problem. Experts are split on what it means.

Have You Ever Created a MATLAB Plot and Thought, “There Has to Be an Easier Way?”

Have You Ever Created a MATLAB Plot and Thought, “There Has to Be an Easier Way?” The first time I learned MATLAB, I believed plotting meant memorizing …

Fields Medals 2026

The International Mathematical Union has announced the 2026 Fields Medal recipients. Four mathematicians are recognized: one for work in partial differential equations including derivation of the Boltzmann equation and wave kinetic equations; one for achievements in symplectic geometry, Fukaya categories, and knot theory; one for recasting o-minimality in arithmetic and algebraic geometry and proving major conjectures including the André-Oort conjecture; and one for advances in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including progress on the Kakeya problem and Fourier restriction.

MIT student leaders: Q&A with men’s soccer captain Dilin Meloni

Dilin Meloni captains the MIT men's soccer team while majoring in nuclear science and engineering and physics, and serving on the Student Athlete Advisory Council.

The Universe of Discourse : The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game

A blog post in a series exploring the path to epsilon-zero through combinatorial game theory. It reformulates the game of Nim as a coin-moving game on a numbered track, showing how moving coins leftward is isomorphic to removing beans from piles. The post then extends this strip model to represent infinite ordinals: a second strip represents ω, a grid represents ordinals up to ω², stacked grids approach ω³, and higher-dimensional structures approach ωω. This geometric framing provides an intuitive way to visualize transfinite ordinals without needing special token types.