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The Fields Medal should return to its roots (2018)
- Bostonian 7y ago"Our current understanding of the social impact of mathematics and of barriers to diversity within it is decidedly different to that of mathematicians in the mid-twentieth century. If committees today were given the same licence to define the award that early committees enjoyed, they could focus on mathematicians who have backgrounds and identities that are under-represented in the discipline’s elite." This is yet another call to recognize people based on demographics rather than achievement.