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Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel
William Robinson writes "Sci Tech is reporting that Swedish mathematician Lennart Carleson has won the Abel Prize on Thursday for proving a 19th century theorem on harmonic analysis. His theorems have been helpful in creating iPod. Prof Carleson's major contributions have come in two fields - the first has subsequently been used in the components of sound systems and the second helps to predict how markets and weather systems respond to change. One of Carleson's many triumphs was settling a conjecture that had remained unsolved for over 150 years. He showed that every continuous function (one with a connected graph) is equal to the sum of its Fourier series except perhaps at some negligible points."
Young people today. You tell them about a deep result in real analysis, and the only thing they're interested in is how it relates to their iPod. And get off my lawn.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
No wireless. Less decimals than pi. Lame.