We’re pleased to share that Professor Jesse Kass was recently featured in Quanta Magazine in the article “New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems”.
The piece highlights Professor Kass’s collaborative research with Kirsten Wickelgren (Duke University), which brings new perspective to long-standing questions in enumerative geometry—the study of how many geometric objects satisfy particular conditions. Their work applies modern ideas from motivic homotopy theory to reinterpret classical counting problems, allowing mathematicians to study how these counts vary across different number systems, such as the real numbers or finite fields.
Quanta describes how this approach has reframed some of geometry’s oldest problems, connecting areas of algebra, topology, and number theory, and sparking renewed interest in the field among both established and early-career researchers.
We congratulate Professor Kass on this recognition of his innovative contributions to modern algebraic geometry!
Read the full article here: New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems – Quanta Magazine