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Fascinatingly, Jim Simon's philanthropic org, Simons Foundation, is also what created and funds the well known Quanta Magazine.
by Workaccount2 3y ago
Fascinatingly, Jim Simon's philanthropic org, Simons Foundation, is also what created and funds the well known Quanta Magazine.
- fotta 3y agoAlso the (formerly known as) Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley is named after him after a large grant. It's featured frequently on the Numberphile YouTube channel (as they fund Brady in some capacity).
- squokko 3y agoThe value per dollar in sponsoring educational content on YouTube is incredible. Imagine how many people are learning from channels like Numberphile, 3Blue1Brown, Steve Mould, etc.
- mistrial9 3y agoI found a new-to-me grad student guy, with decent video skills, got 240k views on a certain paper review video. wild days..
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- throwaway5752 3y agoI'm not sure it's generally understood what a serious academic research mathematician he is/was. He taught at top programs, won awards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)