One outstanding fact is the disproportionate number of fields medalist that went to the École normale supérieure in Paris !
Yeah well getting into ENS Ulm is already such an outstanding feat, no surprise there.
Fields Medals 2022
31–40 of 80 posts
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#32Can 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.
One of the winners says that there are no concrete applications, but that some of the tools developed ("interpolation formulas") could potentially be useful for solving differential equations and signal processing, but doesn't go into detail.
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#33Quoted post unavailable.
She is, I expected her to win in 2018.
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#34Quoted post unavailable.
No no no, she is legit, no doubt here. She was a star way before the current events. She solved a long-standing open problem in fundamental maths. This is the holy grail in maths research. The main resulting paper is single-author, so there is no doubt who did the work. She got her PhD from Bonn in 2013 and became a full prof at EPFL in 2018 (in EU this type of progression takes 10-20 years, and this is extremely imp…
Thanks for the paper link, it's very curious and surprisingly readable
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#35Can 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.
[deleted]
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#36One outstanding fact is the disproportionate number of fields medalist that went to the École normale supérieure in Paris !
> École normale supérieure in Paris That's a really cool name as well, like "Standard Deluxe" or so.
It's in the sense of norms or standards rather than normal as in unremarkable.
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#37Quoted post unavailable.
This is not an innocent question, this user is a Kremlin tool, reading his comments on reddit is pretty disgusting, here's for example blaming Ukraine for the fact Russia is bombing hospitals: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/vp08m0/the_health_c...
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#3838 year old math PhD checking in. Guess I missed my shot. Oh well.
You've still got 2 years!
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#3938 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 m…
Honestly if you are a mathematician you are already at the top of humanity in terms of cognition. Saying that is not talent is quite something. But I guess I can understand if you see yourself in relation to other mathematicians.
Re: Fields Medals 2022
#40Quoted post unavailable.
I find this question distasteful, since it's asked with nothing more than a vague insinuation of Viazovska potentially not being "that good" as motivation. Here's the long citation: "A very long-standing problem in mathematics is to find the densest way to pack identical spheres in a given dimension. It has been known for some time that the hexagonal packing of circles is the densest packing in 2 dimensions, while in…
I agree that it is a distasteful question. But what is much more distasteful that it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for the answer to that question to be yes. Not that I am in any position to make that assessment.