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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by WiSaGaN on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:02PM (#33514738)
True. I am wondering whether this trend would make Fields Medal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal), the most prestigious award in mathematics, to change its requirement of that recipients must be of age 40 or less.
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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by impendia on Monday November 07, 2022 @08:29PM (#33514935)
They didn't break the rule for Andrew Wiles after he proved Fermat's Last Theorem, which was arguably the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics.

So I expect them to stick to their rule.

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