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Uncommon Interview: Fields Medalist Yu Deng on the Emergence of Irreversibility
Fields Medalist Yu Deng discusses how irreversible phenomena such as gas diffusion can emerge from reversible Newtonian laws. His work extends a 1975 result, deriving the Boltzmann equation across all
By By Navaneeth Rajan · 2026-09-17T09:10:24.497Z
Fields Medalist Yu Deng discusses how irreversible phenomena such as gas diffusion can emerge from reversible Newtonian laws. His work extends a 1975 result, deriving the Boltzmann equation across all times rather than only brief intervals. The interview explores a major problem linking microscopic motion to macroscopic behavior, and why statistical mathematics is essential to understanding complex systems.
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