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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots by jhshah on Sunday February 11, 2018 @10:22PM (#16356288)
Quibbling about the Fields Medal mentoring claim: Schwartz -> Grothendieck -> Deligne is a counterexample.
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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots by kkylin on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:37AM (#16357347)
Also Avila & Yoccoz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Avila and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Christophe_Yoccoz.
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Re:The Fields Medal should return to its roots by ocfnash on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:15AM (#16357491)
Also Atiyah supervised Donaldson (albeit jointly with Hitchin), Mirzakhani was supervised by McMullen and others I'm sure.
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