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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
by stncls 4y ago
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 impressive even by US standards). It was very clear to everyone at that time that she would be big.
Or just look at the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04246 https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04246
you can't fake that with politics.
- paganel 4y agoThank you for the answer, that's what I expected (as an answer, I mean). And to respond to a HN-er above who was mentioning that he/she found my question "distasteful" and "insinuating", yes, the reality today is that lots of people involved on one side of the current conflict in Eastern Europe have been receiving prizes and media attention just because of their nationality at this present moment in history, not necessarily because of their actual work in their respective fields. Glad to see that the "judges" (I have no idea who gives up this award, or how) behind the Field Medals have steered clear of all that and have sticked to merit.
- raverbashing 4y agoThanks for the paper link, it's very curious and surprisingly readable