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Million-dollar problems? You will find them in mathematics.

21 November 2019

Jan Nekovář, laureate of the 2019 Neuron Award for a significant scientific discovery in mathematics, was a guest of DVTV. Why did he fall for the magic of number theory, and where in ordinary life can we come across the elliptic curves for whose study Jan Nekovář was honoured? Listen to the interview recorded at the venue of the Neuron Awards ceremony itself — the National Museum.

Jan Nekovář, laureate of the 2019 Neuron Award for a significant scientific discovery in mathematics, was a guest of DVTV. Why did he fall for the magic of number theory, and where in ordinary life can we come across the elliptic curves for whose study Jan Nekovář was honoured? Listen to the interview recorded at the venue of the Neuron Awards ceremony itself — the National Museum.

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