Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots
by pducks32 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:39PM
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I recently got to meet a fields medalist who will remain nameless but he mention a really really interesting statistic. No Field’s medalist has ever been the mentor to another Field’s medalist. I (my opinion here not his) think that this glorifies these young mathematicians who never go onto mentor or yield another similarly gifted mathematician. We should be finding great mathematicians who discover great math collaboratively.
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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots
by jhshah on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:22PM
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Quibbling about the Fields Medal mentoring claim: Schwartz -> Grothendieck -> Deligne is a counterexample.
Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots
by kkylin on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:37AM
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Also Avila & Yoccoz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Avila and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Christophe_Yoccoz.