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I know he has other sources of income but the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person, in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" an

I know he has other sources of income but the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person, in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities, is rewarded for his efforts and can just go out and buy himself a brand new Ferrari with the prize money makes me smile.

6502nerdface 11y ago
> the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person [...] is rewarded for his efforts Yeah, all he had to do was prove Fermat's Last Theorem.
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- delightless 11y ago
  And then wait 22 years.
  - noir_lord 11y ago
    The note to pay him should have been in the margins but there wasn't enough room.
frutiger 11y ago
> "travellers" I sincerely do not understand what was meant by this.
- wagglycocks 11y ago
  A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.
  - indifferentalex 11y ago
    I don't want to take anything away from anyone, but I did not mean writers/journalists, I meant people who travel the world on their parents' money and post photos of themselves on their voyages on instagram (labelling themselves as "travellers")
kyzyl 11y ago
I dunno, the prize might be a little overblown. All-in it seems like a pretty marginal improvement if you ask me.
- _rpd 11y ago
  I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the major achievements of modern mathematics.
  - ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
    "marginal improvement" was the key phrase
    - kyzyl 11y ago
      Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)
lmm 11y ago
> in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities Many of whom work equally hard at what they do, and bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.

6502nerdface 11y ago

> the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person [...] is rewarded for his efforts Yeah, all he had to do was prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

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delightless 11y ago
And then wait 22 years.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  The note to pay him should have been in the margins but there wasn't enough room.

frutiger 11y ago

> "travellers" I sincerely do not understand what was meant by this.

wagglycocks 11y ago
A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.
- indifferentalex 11y ago
  I don't want to take anything away from anyone, but I did not mean writers/journalists, I meant people who travel the world on their parents' money and post photos of themselves on their voyages on instagram (labelling themselves as "travellers")

kyzyl 11y ago

I dunno, the prize might be a little overblown. All-in it seems like a pretty marginal improvement if you ask me.

_rpd 11y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the major achievements of modern mathematics.
- ibmthrowaway218 11y ago
  "marginal improvement" was the key phrase
  - kyzyl 11y ago
    Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)

lmm 11y ago

> in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities Many of whom work equally hard at what they do, and bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.