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  • In September 2014, |Peter| Scholze was teaching a special course at the University of California, Berkeley. Despite being only 26, he was already a legend in the mathematics world. Two years earlier he had completed his dissertation, in which he articulated a new geometric theory based on objects he’d invented called perfectoid spaces. He then used this framework to solve part of a problem in number theory called the weight-monodromy conjecture.

    — “New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry” By Kevin Hartnett, July 19, 2021 (https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-a-new-shape-mathematicians-link-geometry-and-numbers-20210719/)

    July 24, 2021