Quanta Magazine
Illustrations for Quanta magazine – describing a concept called The Langlands program; which provides a beautifully intricate set of connections between various areas of mathematics, pointing the way toward novel solutions for old problems.
Client
Quanta MagazineCreative Field
IllustrationProject Type
Editorial, InfographicsTechnique
Digital
Imagine the world of mathematics as a physical world - with different continents representing different fields of mathematics...
...One of these being the field of Number Theory.
Another one of these continents is the land of Harmonic Analysis...
...This is a world of Symmetry, geometry, repeating patterns and modular forms.
These vastly different fields was long thought to exist totally separate from each other - mathematicians who studied them could never really prove any interconnectedness between them. That is, not until 1967 when, in a letter to the number theorist André Weil, a 30-year-old mathematician named Robert Langlands outlined striking conjectures that predicted a correspondence between two objects from these separate fields. The Langlands program was born.
