Modular forms provide a powerful mathematical framework for understanding symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theories. In conformal field theory (CFT), these holomorphic functions obey ...
“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modular forms.” Part of the joke, ...
Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical ...