How Not to Accept a Prize
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- Oxford Mathematician James Maynard won the 2022 Fields Medal, the highest honour for a mathematician. Here's how he accepted the award as told to Hannah Fry.
Watch the full lecture and interview: • The Magic of the Prime...
equivalent of checking 1+1 on a calculator, in a math exam, after a tricky question.
Terence Howard forgot to check and things went wild
When he said that they must have thought him the weirdest mathematician in the world I was already thinking that must be a pretty tough competition. I like the fact he realised that as he said it as well.
Congratulations on your achievement
If other British Fields medallists are any guide, he should be in line for a KBE at some point.
So sad that honours have been devalued as a jolly for donors and cronies.
I would love to see a video on the "weirdest" mathematicians.
Exactly something I would do in this situation
yea thats what i woulda did
Such a creative idea!
"Do you, James Maynard, take this Fields Medal, to be your price, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, and promise to love and cherish the community of science until the Collatz' conjecture is proven?""
"Yes. I. Do."
😭 this is legit so cute
Perhaps some context? Who’s this guy and what’s he famous for? (Asking seriously, no cynicism)
Oxford Mathematician James Maynard who won a Fields Medal, the highest honour for a mathematician, in 2022.
@@OxfordMathematics Thanks.
It looks like his first major contribution was considerably improving (lowering) the upper bound on gaps between consecutive primes. He had subsequent contributions. Clever dude 👍😀
I think people who follow Oxfordmath‘s page all know James Maynard 😂
@@parvdize3968 There exists at least one element (me 🙂) in the set of followers of this channel who did not recognize this gentleman from the video, nor his accomplishments until after a search. This implies a nonzero probability of *other* elements in the set of followers who may share this lack of knowledge. Not a laughing matter… 😉
@@gideonk123we are in the same set of people... but I am not that much into math to keep up with all the latest advancements and achievements, but I will certianly check out the work of mr. Maynard, even tho I will only, maybe, understand the title of his thesis 😅😅
LOL i love this guy!
Ive got no chance of winning any medal but I can totally understand his thought process and paranoia.
Sometimes when I approach a zebra crossing and someone's about to walk across I often think "sh!t what if I hit the accelerator now and I hit those people" so I then do a test slow down around 20m back, just in case I've got the pedals wrong. It's bizarre
It is the same during alliance selection in a robotics tournament
😂 This is kind of a speech equivalent of when we are fighting hard against our sudden urges of intrusive thoughts and suddenly slow down to make sure we are not going to even unconsciously do it. Such as when the system is in BIOS Update, we do know that switching it off will brick the whole system, 😂 so we physically distance ourselves from the power button and the power sources so that we don't accidentally turn it off.
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Too clever for me, I just like cups of tea and fart jokes
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That was funny :)
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The autism is strong with him I am very proud
Aspergers.
Is that our favorite mathematiciess and thought leader, or just someone sharing her accent?
Hannah Fry? Gotta be.
I could respect someone who turns down a Fields medal or Nobel Prize.
Why?
@@creativesource3514 Why not? Perelman declined the medal because he wasn't particularly interested in money or fame. He loved his work, we did and he has everyone's respect.
@@prithujsarkar2010 Well itsike this. If you receive such an honour your academic department has much more chance at academic grants and funding for much better and high quality research. He is already famius enough for turning down the honour anyway.
Andrew Tate in his youth..
LMAO, Tate is not even remotely intelligent enough to win a fields medal. Dude is a human trafficker and a scam artist for dumb teen boys.
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Wow. Hilarious. Not.