A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change

Quanta Magazine spoke with Wilkinson about the emotional dimensions of mathematical discovery, bizarre examples of dynamical systems that she’s found, and the idea of a “safe space” in mathematics. The future of our solar system is just the trajectory of a single point through this massive dynamical system. For me there are some interesting big questions like: What are the general mechanisms we can find for certain types of long-term behaviors in a dynamical system?

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