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"A Mathematician"? It's Claire Voisin, not some rando... She's a huge deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voisin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voi
by yau8edq12i 3y ago
"A Mathematician"? It's Claire Voisin, not some rando... She's a huge deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voisin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voisin
- tgv 3y agoThe title is also weird. It's about her view on her (personal) ideas about maths, how she sees it, how it works for her. There are (almost) no statements about creativity, art, and language in general.
- orangevelcro 3y agoI think it has to do with her views on math being related to her other creative interests - saying you could compare a mathematical theorem to a poem, for example. Also, where she talks about how she sits and works at a computer but that's not where the real work happens. The real work can happen when she's doing something that allows her mind to wander, like cleaning, but her mind is still working in the background. Sounds like a creative process to me.
- fermigier 3y agoYeah. She was awarded the Crafoord prize this year, a distinction similar to the Nobel prize in other disciplines. (Other mathematicians who were awarded the prize include Grothendieck, Deligne, Connes, Tao, Bombieri...).