Fields Medals 2022
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Fields Medals 2022
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#2This year's Fields Medals should be of great interest for this crowd: most of the winners study concepts very familiar to computer scientists, while their methods touch upon the deepest, most intricate areas of pure mathematics. From sphere packings, prime numbers and lattices to percolation theory to information complexity to point configurations and much more. They are studied using representation theory, matroids, automorphic forms, real algebraic geometry and probabilistic methods among many other tools. People should check both the popular expositions in the link and the laudatio for interesting information.
[paraphrased from a comment I made in another submission]
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#3I know the Nobel Prize has had its share of upsets, but has anyone ever been deserving of a Fields Medal but been over the age of 40?
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#438 year old math PhD checking in. Guess I missed my shot. Oh well.
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#5Can anyone give a little insight into how some of these discoveries can have engineering applications? There are some abstracts, but has anyone looked at this and seen potential uses in computer science? I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this on Hacker News considering it's the Fields Medal.
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#6I know the Nobel Prize has had its share of upsets, but has anyone ever been deserving of a Fields Medal but been over the age of 40?
Andrew Wiles (for proving the Fermat-Wiles theorem as a consequence of the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture proof)
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#7I know the Nobel Prize has had its share of upsets, but has anyone ever been deserving of a Fields Medal but been over the age of 40?
Andrew Wiles.
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#938 year old math PhD checking in. Guess I missed my shot. Oh well.
I'm only in my late 20s but have managed to rid myself of the pursuit/worry/desire/envy of being a great mathematician.
What I worry about now is how to approach the subject with my children.
Because on one hand I do not want them to not be ambitious as younglings.
But I also do not want them to experience the crushing disappointment of realizing they are not talented, as that was one of the hardest bitter pills of my life.
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I wasn't even thinking about that, but then I watched all videos, and in hers she spends more time talking about the war than she does talking about her work. I understand she's been affected but that feels out of place here.