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And 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
by adtac 2y ago
And 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.