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Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...