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There should be a submission guideline that disallows such useless titling.
I worked on a short film about him, for the Abel Prize ceremony, last March.
I've heard of him and I'm just a regular everyday normal guy who codes for a living.
You'd be surprised how "regular everyday guys" haven't heard of him. In fact I'd be surprised if most US citizens can even name the vice president of the US, even with all the hoopla around Trump's presidency...
Politics -> Trump
History -> Trump
Computing -> Trump
...
Mathematics -> Trump
Trump -> Trump
* -> Trump
That gets old pretty soon.
1. Langlands is indeed a great mathematician, whose work has been enormously influential.
2. Most of us aren't all that eccentric. He wrote his paper in Russian, a language which he (presumably) does not natively speak, apparently just for the heck of it? That's just weird.
Most of the mathematicians I know, including the most influential ones, are relatively normal people. And they want as many people to read their work as possible, and don't throw up artificial roadblocks. (Most working mathematicians cannot read or write Russian.)
3. There is not that big of a conflict between pure and applied mathematicians. (Except when they're competing for money, or trying to decide whom to hire in their departments.)
The most common attitude among pure mathematicians is: we work on mathematical questions for their own sake, and don't think too much about applications to the "real world" -- but we are happy if it is brought to our attention that such applications exist.
Oh, Robert Langlands! I worked on a short film about him, for the Abel Prize ceremony, last March. http://www.abelprize.no/artikkel/vis.html?tid=73176
Working mathematician here -- 1. Langlands is indeed a great mathematician, whose work has been enormously influential. 2. Most of us aren't all that eccentric. He wrote his paper in Russian , a language which he (presumably) does not natively speak, apparently just for the heck of it? That's just weird. Most of the mathematicians I know, including the most influential ones, are relatively normal people. And they wan…
Working mathematician here -- 1. Langlands is indeed a great mathematician, whose work has been enormously influential. 2. Most of us aren't all that eccentric. He wrote his paper in Russian , a language which he (presumably) does not natively speak, apparently just for the heck of it? That's just weird. Most of the mathematicians I know, including the most influential ones, are relatively normal people. And they wan…
In the library here they have a book called "Russian for Mathematicians".
Working mathematician here -- 1. Langlands is indeed a great mathematician, whose work has been enormously influential. 2. Most of us aren't all that eccentric. He wrote his paper in Russian , a language which he (presumably) does not natively speak, apparently just for the heck of it? That's just weird. Most of the mathematicians I know, including the most influential ones, are relatively normal people. And they wan…
I'd say it's not _that_ weird, if he likes foreign languages, to combine both his passions and write one paper in Russian :) Also considering there are actually a lot of mathematicians who can read and write Russian.