2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

Post by dang » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

Kalium wrote: post #13

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Hence my ask in the edit: which specific prize / award / recognition can I follow as an amateur math afficionado that doesn't suffer from age bias? You didn't mention one, beyond saying that it exists or that it's given in special circumstances... Which is the challenge re:Fields being the most prestigious.

You're right! Perhaps you might start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Uni... I was attempting to encourage you to engage in the wonders of self-education through research, rather than spoon-feed you particular answers. Please accept my apologies for mistaking your desires.

Post by adenadel » Wed, Aug 01, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

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As a side note, Caucher Birkar's medal was stolen less than half an hour after the award[1] (link in Portuguese) 1: https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2018/08/01/ir...

Post by mygo » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

sometimesijust wrote: post #44

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so I guess, one way to put it, is to look at the Traveling Salesman Problem? The decision problem asks “given a set of cities is there a tour shorter than length n?”. This is NP-Complete. However the pop culture version of the problem is “given a set of cities, what is a tour of the shortest possible length?”. This would be the PPAD-complete version of the problem, since that solution does exist, it’s just unknown an…

TSP is NP-hard for optimisation version and NP-complete for decision version. Consider how you would test that a minimal solution is minimal vs testing whether a given solution has less than a given cost. PPAD is less complete than these two classes. The decision problem for Nash Equilibria might be, does a second equilibrium exist?

Post by simion314 » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 8:08 AM UTC

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Is this a problem only in countries where you have to pay a lot to study? I did not had to pay for my higher education and the people that had a high talent and potentials achieved good results, there was no need to work to make money for studying and if you are good you got positions at University or get jobs at high paying companies.

In countries like the US it starts at birth. Families in rich areas will send their children to elite, selective high schools that cost upward $30,000+. Some of these schools have strong math and science curriculum and are considered direct feeders to elite universities, such as the ivies. These poorer kids could be high IQ'd just like the richer ones, but with less access to resources, may be very behind their riche…

Post by School-Cotton » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

sulam wrote: post #29

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I agree with all of this, but don't see what it has to do with age. The best 50-year-old mathematicians also heavily tend to come from privileged backgrounds. Privileged upbringing is simply one required component of what it takes to be among the best mathematicians of your generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan