Aaditya Rangan is an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at New York University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed his postdoctoral work at NYU. His research has focused for many years on computational and theoretical models of sensory processing, particularly vision and olfaction.
Aaditya Rangan
Associate Professor, Mathematics, New York University
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This roundtable explores whether mathematics has a unifying essence analogous to “life” in biology, and what that might mean for the discipline as a whole. It considers the role of mathematical language, analogies, and connections in shaping the coherence and perceived beauty of mathematical ideas.