Kurdish mathematician co-wins Fields Medal.

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-british-iranian-kurd-fields-math.html

Caucher Birkkar, Kurdish refugee wins along with Peter Scholze, Alegio Figalli and Ashay Venkatesh who is from India. Scholze is German and Figalli is Italian.

But there are some who doubt the direction of the Fields medal:

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-fields-medal-fallacy-math-prize.html#nRlv

Originally posted by @sonhouse
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-british-iranian-kurd-fields-math.html

Caucher Birkkar, Kurdish refugee wins along with Peter Scholze, Alegio Figalli and Ashay Venkatesh who is from India. Scholze is German and Figalli is Italian.

But there are some who doubt the direction of the Fields medal:

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-fields-medal-fallacy-math-prize.html#nRlv

Is this a debate or just informational?

Originally posted by @sonhouse
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-british-iranian-kurd-fields-math.html

Caucher Birkkar, Kurdish refugee wins along with Peter Scholze, Alegio Figalli and Ashay Venkatesh who is from India. Scholze is German and Figalli is Italian.

But there are some who doubt the direction of the Fields medal:

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-fields-medal-fallacy-math-prize.html#nRlv

How did the Chinese fare?

Originally posted by @wolfe63
How did the Chinese fare?

methinks we's a gonna find out soon enuf

Originally posted by @quackquack
Is this a debate or just informational?

Wondered if anyone had any thoughts on the second link about the future of the Fields medal.

Originally posted by @sh76
methinks we's a gonna find out soon enuf

😀

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I was curious as to the second link, as to the future direction of the prize.

Originally posted by @mchill
😀

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