Over at Roots of Unity, I wrote a wrap-up of some of my and other people’s coverage of the Joint Math Meetings back in January.
From my coverage of Fields medalist Cedric Villani’s Gibbs lecture: “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” If you’re not laughing as hard as a room full of mathematicians at 9 pm on the first day of the joint meetings, well, maybe you just had to be there.
Read the full post at Roots of Unity.
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