2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Prize

Alzheimer disease in 2020.

Remarkable advances in unraveling the biological underpinnings of Alzheimer disease (AD) have occurred during the last 25 years. Despite this, we have made only the smallest of dents in the development of truly disease-modifying treatments. What will change over the next 10 years? While the answer is not clear, we make several predictions on the state of the field in 2020, based on the rich kno...

CRIS in 2020

A vision for the requirements of a CRIS in 2020 is presented. It forms part of an e-infrastructure ICT environment for the whole domain of research. The history of CRIS is analysed to pick out key developments and the barriers to achieving the vision are addressed. A plan is proposed to meet the vision, overcoming the barriers and utilising expected developments in ICT. The key is CERIF used as...

Agile Manufacturing in 2020:

Designers face many challenges when designing products and systems. The marketplace of 2020 will be more global and faster paced than today’s market. As the market expands and is shaped by new technology, a company’s success will depend on how quickly and appropriately it can generate and apply knowledge to a specific problem. ADG’s greatest asset is the knowledge of its employees, so this know...

The trace of realistic mathematics education in the school mathematics in Iran

Abstract: In the late 70's, in reaction to both "New Math" movement in the United States and "mechanistic mathematics education" approach to mathematics education in Netherland, Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) has been introduced by Freudenthal and his colleagues. In this educational approach, Freudenthal considered mathematics as a human activity. Based on this approach, education should...