{"id":2245,"date":"2026-07-23T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/living-fully-in-the-math-world-means-threading-the-needle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:55:53","slug":"living-fully-in-the-math-world-means-threading-the-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/living-fully-in-the-math-world-means-threading-the-needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One might imagine that, for a mathematician, proving a monumental theorem is a blissful experience. It wasn&rsquo;t so for Hong Wang. In February 2025, Wang and her collaborator Joshua Zahl presented a 127&#x2d;page proof of a long&#x2d;standing conjecture at the intersection of multiple branches of math. The duo had been checking their work for months and had sent it to select colleagues for review before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/hong-wang-wins-2026-fields-medal-the-third-woman-ever-20260723\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might imagine that, for a mathematician, proving a monumental theorem is a blissful experience. It wasn&rsquo;t so for Hong Wang. In February 2025, Wang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}