He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. (2022)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/
#HackerNews #FieldsMedal #Poet #HighSchoolDropout #MathSuccess #InspirationalStory
#FieldsMedal
Omg y'all, I just realized that since I turned 40 I can't win a #FieldsMedal! Of course almost no one does win one, but the fact that I *can't* is so incredibly freeing. Like it can just be all the way off my radar, nothing to do with me at all. There was essentially zero chance that I would ever do anything significant anyway, but somehow the contest culture still loomed in dark corners of my mind.
Omg I might be able to go back to math someday.
Heidelberg's Neue Universität hosts this week's #HLF24 with laureates of the #ACM #Turing, #AbelPrize, #FieldsMedal awards.
Jean-Pierre Serre (Fields Medal 1954) debunked the 'curse of the Fields Medal' myth: 97% of his papers were published during the 70 years (!) after he won it.
Jean-Pierre Serre exemplifies the importance of inner drive and passion in achieving excellence. His dedication to mathematics, driven by a deep love for the subject rather than a quest for accolades or external awards, is an inspiring reminder that true fulfillment and success come from following one's passions.
For individuals like Jean-Pierre Serre, external awards become secondary to their intrinsic motivation and passion for their work. Their primary satisfaction comes from the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of discovery, making external recognition a mere byproduct rather than the goal.
#JeanPierre #JeanPierreSerre #FieldsMedal #FieldsMedalist #Myth #MythDebunked #Debunked #Mathematics #Math #Maths #Papers #Research #MathResearch
I was very pleased to hear yesterday that this year’s Abel Prize has been awarded to Michel Talagrand. For more about Talagrand and his mathematics, see the Abel site, Quanta, NYT, Nature and elsewhere. Also, see lots of reactions on Twitter.
Almost exactly ten years ago I got an email from someone whose name I didn’t recognize, expressing interest in the notes I had made available online which would turn into the book on quantum mechanics.
He was reading the notes and had some comments which he included, saying he thought they were trivial but maybe I would want to take a look.
Some of them were of the type “I don’t quite understand the argument on page X”.
Figuring that I’d help out an earnest reader with a weak background by explaining the argument a bit better, I took a look at the argument on page X.
After a while I realized that what I had written was nonsense, a very different argument was needed.
“I don’t quite understand” was his way of politely telling me “you have this completely wrong.”
I soon ran into Yannis Karatzas and asked him if he knew anything about this “Michel Talagrand”. He told me “of course! He’s amazing, almost got a Fields Medal”.
Over the next year or two I benefited tremendously from Michel continuing to read carefully through my notes and send me detailed comments.
He was very much responsible for improving a lot the quality and accuracy of what I was writing.
He had begun his own project of trying to understand quantum field theory by writing a book about it.
The result is available as What Is a Quantum Field Theory?, which is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in a precise and accurate account of much of the basics of the subject.
If you’ve seen Gerald Folland’s excellent Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians, you can think of Talagrand’s book as a much expanded version, giving the full story that Folland only sketched
#peterwoit #MichelTalagrand #FieldsMedal #NotEvenWrong
“La maggior parte delle persone che non hanno ricevuto una formazione scientifica probabilmente pensano che i fisici facciano calcoli incredibilmente complicati. Ma non è questa la vera essenza. L’essenza è che la fisica vuole capire i concetti e i principi con cui funziona il mondo.”
Edward Witten, fisico e matematico.
.
#fieldsmedal #edwardwitten #science #mathematics #fisica #elzevirista
Today for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum we're at SAP - now listening to the talk by 2022 #fieldsmedal winner Hugo Duminil-Copin - and of course a little bit of sketching! #hlf23
#GrigoriPerelman 🇷🇺 proved the #PoincaréConjecture 20 years ago, which was one of the 7 #milleniumproblems in #mathematics. 🧮 He declined a series of awards though, incl. the #FieldsMedal. 🥇
The Poincaré conjecture is "a central problem both in maths and physics because it seeks to understand what the shape of the universe can be," said
Marcus du Sautoy
at
University of Oxford
(In: https://theguardian.com/science/2006/aug/16/russia.highereducation).
Nice interview of Maryna Viazovska: “A maths problem is an intimate thing” @snsf_ch https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2023/03/02/a-maths-problem-is-an-intimate-thing/
#maths #FieldsMedal #EPFL #WomenInSTEM
Happy 85th birthday to Sergei Novikov https://zbmath.org/authors/novikov.sergei-petrovich! He is famous for his work on algebraic topology and soliton theory, and won the #FieldsMedal in 1970. His influential paper "The periodic problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation" was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0299.35017.
Great article about Maryna Viazovska, the sphere-packing number theorist, has become the 2nd woman to win a #FieldsMedal 🎖️ in the award’s 86-year history:
👉 https://www.quantamagazine.org/ukrainian-mathematician-maryna-viazovska-wins-fields-medal-20220705/
"In March, the war exacted a far greater toll on Ukraine’s math community, when russian air strike in Kharkiv killed the 21-year-old mathematician Yulia Zdanovskaya. 5 years ago, Zdanovskaya won a silver medal at the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad..." 💔
The Fields medalist June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. His profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honour. To know more about him, visit the link 🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/
#FieldsMedal #FieldsMedalist #JuneHuh #Mathematics #Combinatorics #Geometry #FieldsMedal2022
On 2 new 🪙 #FieldsMedal winners:
Hugo Duminil-Copin: distinguished for work on the theory of phase transitions in statistical physics.
James Maynard: awarded for new analytic number theory, increasing understanding of prime numbers.
Both 🇪🇺#EUfunded! https://erc.europa.eu/news/prestigious-prizes-maths-awarded-two-erc-grantees
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1544311404500553734
கணித துறையில் சிறந்து விளங்குபவர்களுக்கான ஃபீல்ட்ஸ் பதக்கத்தை வென்ற இரண்டாவது பெண்மணி மரியனா வியாசோவ்ஸ்கா https://patrikai.com/ukrainian-mathematician-maryna-viazovska-becomes-second-woman-to-win-prestigious-fields-medal/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com
On 2 new 🪙 #FieldsMedal winners:
Hugo Duminil-Copin: distinguished for work on the theory of phase transitions in statistical physics.
James Maynard: awarded for new analytic number theory, increasing understanding of prime numbers.
Both 🇪🇺#EUfunded! https://erc.europa.eu/news/prestigious-prizes-maths-awarded-two-erc-grantees
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1544311404500553734
Congratulations to the 4 new #FieldsMedal winners, awarded for outstanding mathematical achievement!
🥇Maryna Viazovska
🥇June Huh
🥇Hugo Duminil-Copin
🥇James Maynard
We are pleased we could support the latter two with 🇪🇺ERC Starting Grants.
➡️http://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1544236748993187840
We are also pleased to note that another new #fieldsmedal winner, 🇺🇦Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska, also recently worked with the ERC.
In 2021 Prof Viazovska was a member of an ERC panel of experts (evaluating proposals from other researchers seeking ERC grants).
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ERC_Research/status/1544240716540436481
Today, May 12th, was chosen as a day to globally celebrate women in mathematics #WomenInMaths. It was the birthday of Maryam #Mirzakhani (1977-2017), the first and only woman to win the #FieldsMedal.
#FieldsMedal 82 to prove geometrization conjecture G for #Haken manifolds M
3-M Need be spherical S was slow to prove but made Hamilton H find his Ricci flow f . H -> given a closed 3-M w metric of + R curvature, f collapses c M to a point in t
Proves G as metric-> ~ S bf c
#FieldsMedal 82 to prove geometrization conjecture G for #Haken manifolds M
3-M Need be spherical S was slow to prove but made Hamilton H find his Ricci flow f . H -> given a closed 3-M w metric of + R curvature, f collapses c M to a point in t
Proves G as metric-> ~ S bf c
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