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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by indifferentalex on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:09PM (#11293404)
I know he has other sources of income but the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person, in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities, is rewarded for his efforts and can just go out and buy himself a brand new Ferrari with the prize money makes me smile.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by 6502nerdface on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @06:49PM (#11293647)
> the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person [...] is rewarded for his efforts

Yeah, all he had to do was prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by delightless on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @07:31PM (#11293851)
And then wait 22 years.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by noir_lord on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @08:35PM (#11294131)
The note to pay him should have been in the margins but there wasn't enough room.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by frutiger on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @08:00PM (#11293997)
> "travellers"

I sincerely do not understand what was meant by this.

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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by wagglycocks on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:59PM (#11294913)
A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by indifferentalex on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:39AM (#11296058)
I don't want to take anything away from anyone, but I did not mean writers/journalists, I meant people who travel the world on their parents' money and post photos of themselves on their voyages on instagram (labelling themselves as "travellers")
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by kyzyl on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:00PM (#11294229)
I dunno, the prize might be a little overblown. All-in it seems like a pretty marginal improvement if you ask me.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by _rpd on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:01AM (#11295915)
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the major achievements of modern mathematics.
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by ibmthrowaway218 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:11AM (#11296155)
"marginal improvement" was the key phrase
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by kyzyl on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:29PM (#11300023)
Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)
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Re:Fermat's Last Theorem Earns Andrew Wiles the Abel Prize by lmm on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:19AM (#11296188)
> in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities

Many of whom work equally hard at what they do, and bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.

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