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Strange to see this precisely today. I can't help seeing this and remember once more Robin Williams (RIP) in 'Good Will Hunting', where I first knew about the Field Medal and the magic of Maths was a recurring theme in that fantastic movie.
R.I.P. Robin Williams
Is it just me, or are the winners not listed anywhere on this site? It says "The Prize Committees for ICM 2014 have begun their work." And "last updated: 2014-07-30" at the bottom. Was the page reverted to an older version for some reason?
I was in the same Harvard class as Manjul Bhargava, one of this year's Fields Medal winners. I remember having lunch with him as a freshman and being amazed that he was already taking Math 134 (topology). I slowly realized he'd effectively taken a full undergraduate math curriculum in high school. I had a friend who was Manjul's TA for a probability class our senior year. I still remember him exclaiming, "There's no…
By any chance, can you remember that problem? I have no way to understand Manjul Bhargava's work that got him the Nobel prize, but I could probably understand how he solved that problem, which would enable me to perceive a slight bit of his genius.
Martin Hairer is a OS X developer and the author of the fantastic Amadeus multi-track audio editor. http://www.hairersoft.com
I'm sorry, what? A Fields medalist AND a OS X dev. I...
That's a technique i tried when i was bulding my latest "complex" algorithm (graph diffing with the graph stored in a sql db): Whenever i felt stuck, i went and took an online lesson in quantum mechanics ( susskin ones, the best).
All of the sudden, all my problems seemed really easy, and i was able to move forward almost right away.
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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.
It's important to note that successful Iranians generally become successful _despite_ the country they grow up in, not because of it. In my opinion, and having first-hand experience with that environment, the credit for this incredible achievement belongs to her and herself only.
A pity only very few people in the world can fully understand the beauty of the mathematical proofs these geniuses created
[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Théorème-vivant-Cédric-Villani/dp/22467...
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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
Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win, which is even more notable than being the first Iranian.
Quanta Magazine, published by the Simons Fonundation, has an article on each of the four Fields Medallists and the Nevanlinna Prize winner, Subhash Khot. Artur Avila - A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-... Manjul Bhargava - The Musical, Magical Number Theorist http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-the-musical-... Martin Hairer - In Noisy Equat…
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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.
It's important to note that successful Iranians generally become successful _despite_ the country they grow up in, not because of it. In my opinion, and having first-hand experience with that environment, the credit for this incredible achievement belongs to her and herself only.
What you say doesn't make sense as she went to a very good Iranian school..
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.