Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math

[Greg]

A link to an interesting article I found is below:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-lead-to-unexpected-discovery-in-basic-math-20191113/

 

[topsquark]

Fascinating. Now if only the article had mentioned what the new formula was!

The part about the neutrinos and electrons interacting in an atom is new to me though. Thanks for that reason as well!

-Dan

 

[Opalg]

There is a good description of this result in Tau's blog, https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-eigenvalues/.

 

[Ackbach]

Fascinating. Now if only the article had mentioned what the new formula was!

The part about the neutrinos and electrons interacting in an atom is new to me though. Thanks for that reason as well!

-Dan

Here is Tao's paper. Short and sweet! I, too, thought this was fascinating! There is room for a masterful mathematician like Tao to write a paper at quite an elementary level.