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As a CS undergrad at Berkeley in the 90's I took an upper division math class in which we worked through the "old school" proof which was brand new and exciting
by rateofclimb 2y ago
As a CS undergrad at Berkeley in the 90's I took an upper division math class in which we worked through the "old school" proof which was brand new and exciting then. Pretty much everyone else in the class was a math grad student. I don't think I understood more than 20% of the material! :)
- williamstein 2y agoI took that class with you! It was amazing. Here are my notes: https://wstein.org/books/ribet-stein/ https://wstein.org/books/ribet-stein/
- williamstein 2y agoAnd the professor who taught that course won a major prize today: Ribet to Receive 2025 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Research - https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7391&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2d6t_wCPkea3MpJZWld6JyhIKeMcTuivQEkZ3tTXeGBZM-32jxKrpq4_4_aem_7-o00iW2IS_Z8yS9JVhQRA https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7391&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CM...
- rateofclimb 2y agoThanks for sharing that! Very cool.