2014 Fields Medals announced

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Post by johnb556677 » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

2014 Fields Medals announced
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Post by IvyMike » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:05 PM UTC

Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:24 PM UTC

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Post by kiyoto » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

IvyMike wrote: post #2

Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

Also notably,

1. Mirzakhani is the first Iranian 2. Bhargava is the first Canadian 3. Hairer is the first Austrian 4. Avila is the first Brazilian

Re: 2014 Fields Medals announced

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Post by WhitneyLand » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:35 PM UTC

>>created an abstract theory of regularity structures for stochastic partial differential equations

Fairly obvious but whatever.

JK!

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Post by melling » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:49 PM UTC

IvyMike wrote: post #2

Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

Well, as an undergrad, she went to one of the best universities in the world.

http://www.newsweek.com/surprising-success-irans-universitie...

We don't hear about it much, but Iran has one of the best universities in the world.

Re: 2014 Fields Medals announced

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Post by WhitneyLand » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:49 PM UTC

WhitneyLand wrote: post #5

>>created an abstract theory of regularity structures for stochastic partial differential equations Fairly obvious but whatever. JK!

Why the down vote, not funny at all? Hey I would be in support of them all getting the same money as Nobel or Abel laureates :).

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Post by comatose_kid » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:54 PM UTC

Amazing group of people. Manjul is my wife's cousin so I have heard of a few examples of his brilliance (like the time he corrected his mom, a Math prof, during one of her lectures - he was a middle-schooler at the time).

Here's a nice piece NPR did on him: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111253

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Post by boxyhendrix » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 7:56 PM UTC

IvyMike wrote: post #2

Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

Thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't actually noticed after glancing at the pictures that a woman was among the winners.

EDIT - I'm not trying to be funny, her hairstyle makes her look like she has a receding hairline so I thought she was a man.

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Post by bwy » Tue, Aug 12, 2014, 8:19 PM UTC

WhitneyLand wrote: post #7

WhitneyLand wrote: post #5

>>created an abstract theory of regularity structures for stochastic partial differential equations Fairly obvious but whatever. JK!

Why the down vote, not funny at all? Hey I would be in support of them all getting the same money as Nobel or Abel laureates :).

Sorry WhitneyLand. In case you haven't noticed, the one thing Hacker News is most afraid of is becoming anything like Reddit.