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James Maynard appears regularly on Numberphile so if you'd like to hear some accessible mathematics from one of the authors of this paper I suggest you check it
by nickcw 2y ago
James Maynard appears regularly on Numberphile so if you'd like to hear some accessible mathematics from one of the authors of this paper I suggest you check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJdwkdjaK1ogByEGiVHdEnM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJdwkdjaK1o...
- nomilk 2y agoTIL the Fields medal is only awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupAXdWPvX8&list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJdwkdjaK1ogByEGiVHdEnM&index=3&t=10m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupAXdWPvX8&list=PLt5AfwLFPx...
- adtac 2y agoAnd only once every four years. Unfortunately, they award it on the 4n+2 years. As someone born on a 4n+0 year, I’ll have just 38 years, which is too severe a disadvantage for me to stomach, so I didn’t bother with it. 4n+2 people, you have no excuses.
- gosub100 2y agoThe margin is too thin, in other words?
- manuelmoreale 2y agoWhat a great reference! Well done.
- arrowsmith 2y agoI don't get it.
- seanhunter 2y agoPierre de Fermat wrote his "last theorem" (that no three positive integers a, b, c satisfy a^n + b^n = c^n for integer values of n>2) in the margin of a copy of Diophantus' arithmetica with the comment that "I have a truly marvelous proof which this margin is too thin to contain". The theorem went unproved for 385 years until Andrew Wiles eventually proved it in 1995, winning the Abel prize (because he was too old to win a Fields medal). Most people think Fermat didn't have a proof - just an intuition - as Wiles' proof uses a bunch of extremely sophisticated and powerful results that came well after Fermat. The GP's comment is particularly clever because until Wiles, the Riemann hypothesis and Fermat's last theorem were the two most famous unsolved problems in maths, so were often talked about together as being these almost unassailable challenges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem
- manuelmoreale 2y agoThank you for explaining it way better than I could have done
- lupire 2y agoThe 2022 Fields medal winners were born in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1987 (Maynard).
- chongli 2y agoI went over this table of Fields Medal winners [1] and the 4n+2 people have won 28% of the awards. However, 33% of the awards were won by 4n+3 people but only 17% were won by 4n+0 people. So your hypothesis does seem to bear out: people born on 4n+0 years are at a significant disadvantage for winning a Fields medal. [1] https://stats.areppim.com/listes/list_fieldsxmedal.htm https://stats.areppim.com/listes/list_fieldsxmedal.htm
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- hyperbovine 2y agoError bars please.
- Sniffnoy 2y agoYes, I don't think the Fields medal was intended as the "Nobel prize of mathematics", but since it was the biggest award that existed it got promoted as such despite its inequivalence. More recently there's the Abel prize, which tries to be a more direct Nobel prize analogue, but of course the Fields medal has a multi-decade head start in terms of promotion...
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoNobel Prize (and Abel Prize and Wolf Prize) are for the lifetime achievement, i.e. the scientific contributions that lead to the prize might be from decades ago.
- ks2048 2y agoMaynard's videos on Numberphile are great. Like Tao, he seems to be able to explain things clearly to non-experts - I think another sign of greatness.