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'cause alfred nobel's wife ran off with a mathematician, there is no nobel for mathematics. subsequently, the fields medal is regarded as maths' equivalent:
here is a short piece on the winners - there were four who shared the offer of the award this year (only given every four years) but for the first time, one was declined!
grigory perelman seems to have solved poincare's conjecture but has declined the honour.
also among the winners was terence tao - he is from adelaide australia and was at an event run by the professor i work for in 1999 called 'geniuses prodigies and savants' - he was a child prodigy [his father billy gave a session on 'living with prodigies'. he had three exceptional children]. usually not much comes of them, but once in a while - the real thing!
i get to draft our congratulations letter to him, yay! |
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