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A Golden Ratio

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
August 01, 2011

It would seem logical for Israel to disproportionately dominate globally in the field of mathematics, but it was only last year that an Israeli won the Fields Medal, the discipline’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Today in Tablet Magazine, Roy Abrams documents the great strides in math that Israel has indeed made, despite its, er, numbers.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.