{"610960":{"#nid":"610960","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Tinkertoy Models Produce New Geometric Insights","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMathematicians have investigated the equations required to describe \u0026mdash; or embed \u0026mdash; different kinds of shapes in spaces with different numbers of dimensions. They ask questions like, \u0026ldquo;Do equations exist that describe this shape in that space?\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;How complicated are the equations required to describe a given shape in space?\u0026rdquo;...In 2006, a mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology named\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~mbaker\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMatt Baker\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;realized it was possible to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/math\/0701075\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebuild a new proof\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the Brill-Noether theorem using techniques drawn entirely from the upstart field of tropical geometry. Baker is a professor in the School of Mathematics and associate dean for faculty development in the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-09-05 22:50:59","changed_gmt":"2018-09-05 22:50:59","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Metz Mayor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/tinkertoy-models-produce-new-geometric-insights-20180905\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604663":{"id":"604663","type":"image","title":"Matt Baker, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, College of Sciences","body":null,"created":"1522782653","gmt_created":"2018-04-03 19:10:53","changed":"1522782653","gmt_changed":"2018-04-03 19:10:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230527","name":"2018 Matt Baker.tall250.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Matt%20Baker.tall250.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Matt%20Baker.tall250.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":71843,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Matt%20Baker.tall250.jpg?itok=U21kpA5m"}}},"media_ids":["604663"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2748","name":"mathematics"},{"id":"170129","name":"matt baker"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}