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On the Fields Medal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3sgYKULp0
On his wearing of decorative lapel spiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4REVI30Qc
Beauty vs Utility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopM9BFjcNo
On his office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLpkCZkWfc
Not just a mathematician but a Fields medal winner. The current mayor of Paris is also an interesting person, being a Spanish-born woman from a working class family. She has made huge strides in the greenification of Paris: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-anne-h...
It's not because you are good at maths that you are good at politics. And he's the best example about that we've had so far.
Except for game theory maybe?
Being a former Parisian, I can object here you can be a medal fields winner and not having a clue about economic problem. Paris is facing quite sensible issues right now ( higher debt, untidy streets, insecurity,etc...) and for now all he's proposing here is very similar to what any others politician would offer to get elected. Parisians need some radical changements and for now I haven't heard anything from him tack…
The odds that he can compensate by high grade mathematics are not good enough to me. I think he's gonna go depth first into tech/ideal solutions that nobody really want.
Being a former Parisian, I can object here you can be a medal fields winner and not having a clue about economic problem. Paris is facing quite sensible issues right now ( higher debt, untidy streets, insecurity,etc...) and for now all he's proposing here is very similar to what any others politician would offer to get elected. Parisians need some radical changements and for now I haven't heard anything from him tack…
What radical changes would you like to see? I don't live in Paris but I may be living there in the years to come.
However I'm sure you will enjoy your Parisian experience, despite all the inconvenience, Paris is still a beautiful city.
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What radical changes would you like to see? I don't live in Paris but I may be living there in the years to come.
Not radical changes but just expect some common sense being applied. Over the last decade housing prices has doubled and the city receives a small percentage for each transactions. However this money did benefit only for the whole community but rather for clientlism. Debt has been getting higher and so the taxes. Driving has been made impossible and restaurants are too expensing for the similar service and quality yo…
Looks like another Macron. Well done.
oh wow! much luck to him! i remember watching a talk from him on youtube and putting that book he wrote on my wishlist.
Nothing to see here unfortunately, he's like any other politician. I mean you wouldn't be able to tell he's received a Fields medal by the way he speaks and what propositions he makes. I too would like to hear him say " ... you bring up the subject of housing in Paris and I'll tell you how I think about the problem: in mathematics we have a rather abstract concept called a Group ... ".