Why lattices?
Lattices are everywhere (R. Zamir)
An introduction to lattices and their applications in communications (F. R. Kschischang & C. Feng)
Sphere packing problem has been instigating mathematicians through centuries and lattices keep on being the solution... (article on Quanta Magazine about the recent proof for dimensions 8 and 24 by Maryna Viazovska and her team)
"It's impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul",
said Sofia Kovalevskaya, the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
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"Things evolve, and then you look back at a character, and it’s completely different from your first impression. You have to spend some energy to see the beauty of math",
said Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded with the Fields Medal.
"Magic functions illuminate the mysteries of extremal geometry",
said Maryna Viazovska, the second woman to be awarded with the Fields Medal.
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty",
said Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory.