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Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died by danharaj on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:55PM (#15375833)
This is a massive loss for mathematics and the world :(

Although I've never met him, I've been strongly influenced by his writings and contributions to math, especially his down to earth blog posts.

Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died by defen on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:45PM (#15375964)
That's two Fields Medalists taken entirely too early in the past 3 months (the other being Maryam Mirzakhani). Very sad.
Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died by auggierose on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:03PM (#15375860)
It is. I wonder what this will mean for Homotopy Type Theory.
Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died by zitterbewegung on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:50PM (#15375973)
I think that people will still develop the theory. It still needs a bunch of work but it seems popular enough to stay around.
Re:Vladimir Voevodsky has died by javra on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:49AM (#15378111)
Working in the field I rather have the feeling that it is slowly but surely falling asleep.

One of Voevodsky's views was that all the foundation for a dependently typed formalization of maths is already there, and that it mainly needs to be organized in a better way (cf his unimath project).