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Fields Medals awarded

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hemos-medal-still-in-the-offing dept.

prostoalex writes "Every four years the Fields Medals are awarded to top mathematicians for outstanding research. This year's winners, as this San Francisco Chronicle article reports are Vladimir Voevodsky from Institute for Advanced Study and Laurent Lafforgue from Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. 'True to form, Lafforgue and Voevodsky's mathematical research has no known practical applications', notes SF Chronicle."

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  1. No Practical Applications? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dammit, I'm sick of the Langlands Program getting dumped on in the media. A man proves global correspondence for function fields and all the media can say are there are 'no practical applications'!

    Yeah sure, maybe today, it's the topology and set theory guys who get all the chicks and who get invited to the Oscars and stuff, but just you wait, two-three years, it's going to be ALL ABOUT the Langlands Program!

    On the other hand, take cohomology theory for algebraic varieties: that shit's just weird.

  2. Re:Arrrgh by mill · · Score: 5, Funny

    Turning a doughnut into a coffee cup and vice versa would have serious practical applications for our people in law enforcement though. /mill