[{"id":311168,"date":"2026-09-10T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311168"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:53:03","slug":"emily-wilson-in-conversation-with-leanne-ogasawara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/emily-wilson-in-conversation-with-leanne-ogasawara.html","title":{"rendered":"Emily Wilson In Conversation with Leanne Ogasawara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leanne Ogasawara at Literary Hub<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"One of the most celebrated classicists writing today, Emily Wilson achieved a rare kind of literary stardom in 2017, when her translation of Homer\u2019s\u00a0Odyssey<\/i>\u00a0made her the first woman to publish a complete English version of the epic. Her work, which spans Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca as well as Homer, is known for its rigorous commitment to traditional meter and its startling clarity.<\/p>\n

Increasingly a public figure as well as a scholar, Wilson found herself at the center of the cultural conversation again this year when Christopher Nolan cited her famous opening line as an important influence on his own conception of Odysseus, only for Wilson later to publish a sharply critical review of the finished film.<\/p>\n

Like a lot of people, I was greatly looking forward to reading her new essay collection,\u00a0Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature<\/i><\/a>, which will be out in the US this September from Liveright. As a translator myself, I was especially eager to talk with her about the choices that make translation such an endlessly provisional art: what to preserve, what must inevitably be lost, and how to make an ancient world intelligible without losing the strangeness of it.<\/p>\n

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Leanne Ogasawara at Literary Hub: One of the most celebrated classicists writing today, Emily Wilson achieved a rare kind of literary stardom in 2017, when her translation of Homer\u2019s\u00a0Odyssey\u00a0made her the first woman to publish a complete English version of the epic. Her work, which spans Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca as well as Homer, is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311171,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311168\/revisions\/311171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311164,"date":"2026-09-10T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311164"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:47:57","slug":"why-is-there-controversy-around-openais-millennium-prize-maths-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/why-is-there-controversy-around-openais-millennium-prize-maths-breakthrough.html","title":{"rendered":"Why is there controversy around OpenAI\u2019s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Sparkes at New Scientist<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The controversy arose because, shortly before OpenAI released its news, a pair of researchers,\u00a0Tristan Buckmaster<\/a>\u00a0at New York University\u00a0and\u00a0Levent Alp\u00f6ge<\/a>\u00a0at AI company Anthropic,\u00a0rushed out their solution to a close cousin of Navier-Stokes<\/a>, the Euler equations, which experts suggested could open the door to a full solution.<\/p>\n

Those researchers heard rumours that OpenAI was due to make its announcement, and contacted the company for clarification \u2013 knowing its own solution was on the way. Buckmaster\u00a0claims he was met with opaque responses, and\u00a0put out a statement<\/a>\u00a0that stopped short\u00a0of making any accusations but pointed out that his own work was being stored on OpenAI\u2019s servers \u2013 as a customer, not a research partner.<\/p>\n

OpenAI has explicitly denied any wrongdoing, pointing out that no person or AI from the company had seen Buckmaster and Alp\u00f6ge\u2019s work, and that its solution was, in any case, different.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Sparkes at New Scientist: The controversy arose because, shortly before OpenAI released its news, a pair of researchers,\u00a0Tristan Buckmaster\u00a0at New York University\u00a0and\u00a0Levent Alp\u00f6ge\u00a0at AI company Anthropic,\u00a0rushed out their solution to a close cousin of Navier-Stokes, the Euler equations, which experts suggested could open the door to a full solution. Those researchers heard rumours that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311167,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311164\/revisions\/311167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":311162,"date":"2026-09-10T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=311162"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:41:38","slug":"sabine-hossenfelder-ai-solved-a-millennium-problem-and-everyones-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/09\/sabine-hossenfelder-ai-solved-a-millennium-problem-and-everyones-angry.html","title":{"rendered":"Sabine Hossenfelder: AI Solved a Millennium Problem and Everyone’s Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"