Top Ten Math Discoveries of the 2010s

Dec 22, 2019 | Hinsdale

This Top Ten List comes to us courtesy of Wikipedia, with contributions from several other websites for their sources and citations for all discoveries and achievments listed here!

1) 2002 – Yasumasa Kanada, Y. Ushiro, Hisayasu Kuroda, Makoto Kudoh and a team of nine more compute π to 1241.1 billion digits using a Hitachi 64-node supercomputer.

2) 2004 – The classification of finite simple groups, a collaborative work involving some hundred mathematicians and spanning fifty years, is completed.

3) 2004 – Ben Green and Terence Tao prove the Green-Tao theorem.

4) 2007 – a team of researchers throughout North America and Europe used networks of computers to map E8.

5) 2009 – Fundamental lemma (Langlands program) had been proved by Ngô Bảo Châu.

6) 2013 – Yitang Zhang proves the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers.

7) 2014 – Project Flyspeck announces that it completed proof of Kepler's conjecture.

8) 2015 – Terence Tao solved The Erdös Discrepancy Problem.

9) 2016 – Using Alexander Yee's y-cruncher Peter Trueb successfully calculated π to 22.4 trillion digits.

10) 2019 – Using y-cruncher v0.7.6 Emma Haruka Iwao calculated π to 31.4 trillion digits.