This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When I tell people I’m a mathematician, I get ...

Boardman, who specialized in algebraic and differential topology, was renowned for his construction of the first rigorously correct model of the homotopy category of spectra, a branch of mathematics ...

I am an algebraic topologist and a stable homotopy theorist. I study chromatic homotopy theory and its interactions with equivariant homotopy theory. I also work with condensed matter physicists to ...