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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. Laforge? by Anthony · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I knew that blind guy on ST-TNG was underrrated

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    1. Re:Laforge? by SaraSmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      More like OVERrated. Nobody else got a fancy air filter for their eyes. Looks like he's the big man on the ship to me with his fancy filter. No dust in HIS eyes!

  2. Worked it out at last by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The write up was complete shit, I was thinking turn a coffee cup into a doughnut in a topological sense, but couldn't see any spaces that needed to be changed.

    The writer was just trying to explain what topology is but very badly!.

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