He phrased this so oddly, "his first son," that I'm wondering if it wasn't his first child, but was... just his first *son* to be born. As in, he has at least one daughter already? Would be interested if someone could confirm.
@@verity3616 According to Wikipedia: _Maynard was born on 10 June 1987 in Chelmsford, England.[1] His partner is Eleanor Grant, a medical doctor. They have a child.[4]_ Citation [4] there is "Klarreich, Erica (June 2022). "A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022." The interview it links to reads *He and his partner, Eleanor Grant, are expecting the birth of their first child within a few days, allowing Maynard just enough time for a quick visit to Helsinki.* Which is clearly the same kid he's talking about here.
James has found the best usage for his Fileds Medal. It's made of noble metal, it's anti-bacterial and it's too big to be swallowed, so it makes a perfect toy for infants.
This is the kind of guy who wins the Medal, for research on a subject that really great mathematicians have been exploring for 500+ years. Bravo James ...
It’s virtually a universal truth that any mathematician (or theoretical physicist) of the first order will *always* have all the whiteboard/blackboard space available to them crowded to incomprehensibility. If they have to share this space any empty gaps will have been filled with the comment “DO NOT ERASE”
@deletereddit1102Uh...yeah they do. He has his pick of institution. Universities care much more about research than they do about teaching. Research is their primary mission. They promote and hire based on research, and this is as prestigious a research award as you can get.
Imagine winning the most famous award in your field and the next day you go back your first son is born. I'm surprised he didn't pass out from all the emotions.
"Most mathematicians are really motivated by mathematics" Congratulations James!!!. congratulations to james! he is crazy genius, humble and certainly deserved it.
12:06 I was discussing this with a friend and we agreed that the optimal time for a kid to be born is around September of a 2 (mod 4) year: they'd turn 40 right after the last Fields Medal they're eligible for, and they'd turn 18 right before the first US presidential election they're eligible for
4:55 I was super hyped to see June Huh among the winners! He was an amazing expositor in the "g-conjecture" video, which is one of my favorite Numberphile videos.
I don't think I'll ever be able to understand the work that's gone into the achievement, but I do have an idea of the magnitude of the achievement, congratulations!
Andrew Wiles couldn't be awarded the Fields medal for proving Fermat's Last Theorem because he was 41, but he was awarded a special prize (a silver plaque)
@@andrewcgs Andrew wiles was awarded the abel prize, and a slew of other prizes. But I'm sure in his heart the best prize was being able to solve his childhood dream
James Maynard is one of my favorites on Numberphile but I missed this and have only just found he won the Fields. Well done James. Loved the Birth Year Mod 4 comment.
Ah, he. Remember some videos on this channel. This is a great honor for him. I am happy for him. And like to thank him for his contribution to the most beautiful science of all.
Well, there is a different prize you'd get, specific for a list of problems that includes the Riemann conjecture. I think the prize is a million dollars.
I love that no one in the comments got your joke. He should have said "one year later." We have a term for this in software. This is a version of the off-by-one error (this leads to being off by 2, but they all get lumped together).
Jokes aside, this again dispels the somewhat common misconception that one's proficiency in mental arithmetics is meaningfully correlated with one's ability to apply, advance, or even invent math.
What would be interesting to learn is how has winning the medal opened any doors or made work/life easier? My point is that when we as a society recognize someone's contributions, I would hope it helps the recipient in some way beyond having a pretty prize that has be locked up.
I hijacked the whole internet and I'm going to hold it hostage until humans stop launching imaginary rockets that go nowhere. The space|time to teleport out of The Matrix is whenever|whenever the math|magic hits you. 🫴✨🪄
For myself being awarded that medal is more of value than being given the control of the whole world. I am not after fame, in fact I wouldn't tell if I were to win it. Just to feel in my heart that I have honoured the subject that for me is everything: mathematics.
I think another criticism of the age limit, which James sort of alludes to, is that it may simply take a long time to solve a particular problem. For instance, Perelman locked himself away from the world for like 7 years or something to prove the Poincaré conjecture. So if he started when he was 34, he wouldn't have been eligible. It's not hard to imagine that it might take even more time devoted to a single problem to solve it. Like, what if it actually requires 20 years of work for someone to solve the Riemann hypothesis or P v NP? "Sorry sir/ma'am, you're 42, better luck next life"?
Yea except he didnt actually prove the poincare conjecture and knowingly put forth an incorrect proof in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the award which is why he didn't accept the medal cause it comes with a cash prize and it would be fraudulent of him to accept it.
@@Laocoon283 Quit talking mad bs. Perelman is a man neither for public stunts nor awards. He is (was) a mathematician of the highest caliber, and did indeed prove the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture as well as a number of other interesting new theorems related to the Ricci flow.
You said "imagine solving the Riemann Hypothesis at age 41" Worse, imagine being recognized as having solved it when you are 37 (presumably having solved it some time before but needing peer review and acknowledgement), with the next award four years away when you are 41.
Imagine having your first kid and being awarded a Fields medal on the same week. What a week!
He phrased this so oddly, "his first son," that I'm wondering if it wasn't his first child, but was... just his first *son* to be born. As in, he has at least one daughter already? Would be interested if someone could confirm.
@@verity3616 someone like google or wikipedia?
@@verity3616
According to Wikipedia: _Maynard was born on 10 June 1987 in Chelmsford, England.[1] His partner is Eleanor Grant, a medical doctor. They have a child.[4]_
Citation [4] there is "Klarreich, Erica (June 2022). "A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022."
The interview it links to reads *He and his partner, Eleanor Grant, are expecting the birth of their first child within a few days, allowing Maynard just enough time for a quick visit to Helsinki.*
Which is clearly the same kid he's talking about here.
Imagine how underwhelming the following weeks would be...
@@archimidis they would be super stressful because you're caring for a newborn.
The first Fields Medal was awarded in 1936, 87 years ago and now goes to James Maynard at 36, born in 1987.
whoa thats cool
It's kismet!
From this we learn the important theorem that
1936+87
= 1987+36
@@Dayanto i found my nomination for next season.
SYMMETRY
James has found the best usage for his Fileds Medal. It's made of noble metal, it's anti-bacterial and it's too big to be swallowed, so it makes a perfect toy for infants.
Wouldn't want my baby to bite on it tho
Also, a baby holding a Fields Medal is one of the most adorable images ever created.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721the winners keep getting younger, I tell ya.
@@highviewbarbell Well, they can't be over 40, so they may as well be under 1! 😁
LOL
This is the kind of guy who wins the Medal, for research on a subject that really great mathematicians have been exploring for 500+ years. Bravo James ...
Who says we can't do the same thing he did?
@@leif1075your math grades.
@@kkgt6591 😂😂🤣🤣
@@kkgt6591 My math grades were great..Why would you assume they weren't or anything else without knowing anything about me?
@@leif1075Don’t take it seriously dude, its just trolling. Grades have nothing to do with being groundbreaking in a field anyway.
can't believe i didn't hear about this until now, one of the best numberphile contributors
I feel like a math hipster now lol. "yeah, i was familiar with James Maynard BEFORE he won the fields medal"
@@shasan2393
What’s with the misnaming?
@@ragnkja Woops, sorry mistyped his name. Just goes to show how much I was familiar with him lol
He's also now a Fellow of the Royal Society! Can't wait to see what his future work has in store.
@@jsheradinHave you heard about the Reimann solution yet? 2023 年 8 月 16 日.
Hopefully he can parlay this into a bigger office - dude clearly deserves another whiteboard!
@deletereddit1102 Until they get wind of being recruited to a competing university. Then things tend to change rapidly.
A tiny little whiteboard for his son to work next to him 😁
It’s virtually a universal truth that any mathematician (or theoretical physicist) of the first order will *always* have all the whiteboard/blackboard space available to them crowded to incomprehensibility. If they have to share this space any empty gaps will have been filled with the comment “DO NOT ERASE”
@deletereddit1102Uh...yeah they do. He has his pick of institution. Universities care much more about research than they do about teaching. Research is their primary mission. They promote and hire based on research, and this is as prestigious a research award as you can get.
At Oxford University this is considered a palatial office.
Imagine winning the most famous award in your field and the next day you go back your first son is born. I'm surprised he didn't pass out from all the emotions.
Well that's why he's so chill in interviews. He ran out of high evergy emotion juice during that week and now his maximum excited state is a bit lower
implies second son was born?
@@cmu6443 That's not at all how English works.
I could listen to this guy talk for at least an eon or two... Congrats on this achievement, sir! 👑
I love how at 4:52 James Maynard is the only one smiling. Everyone else is like "Let's get this over with so I can go back to researching"
I don't think you can blame Ukranian mathematician Maryna Viazovska at that particular time.
Viazovska was going through difficult times and had young colleagues and students who died during the Russia-Ukraine war.
Imagine being born and one of the first thing handed to you is a Fields Medal
For his playful yet elegant proof of the drooling conjecture and his stunning expansions in the field of diaperometry
Congratulations!
"Most mathematicians are really motivated by mathematics" Congratulations James!!!. congratulations to james! he is crazy genius, humble and certainly deserved it.
12:06 I was discussing this with a friend and we agreed that the optimal time for a kid to be born is around September of a 2 (mod 4) year: they'd turn 40 right after the last Fields Medal they're eligible for, and they'd turn 18 right before the first US presidential election they're eligible for
... I was born in September 1990. I guess I have a lot of work to do over the next 6-years-and-1-month 😂
@@IceMetalPunk The spirit of an atomic ninja already exists inside you. ⚛️🥷
Provided you're a politically motivated mathematician
Funny how i was born September 2002
I am a math major and my last name means "presedent" in my language
So happy for you James, and for the journey to be brilliantly documented by Numberphile! Such a dream come true! :)
13:42 photographic evidence of world record fields medal speedrun. run time: less than 1 day
4:55 I was super hyped to see June Huh among the winners! He was an amazing expositor in the "g-conjecture" video, which is one of my favorite Numberphile videos.
I don't think I'll ever be able to understand the work that's gone into the achievement, but I do have an idea of the magnitude of the achievement, congratulations!
I can safely say working like crazy for 20+ years and being lucky enough to be born in a place and time to have great tutors/parents .
What an achievement! Congratulations!!
I love this style of video. Interviewing mathematicians is really tickling my anthropology bone
"Most mathematicians are really motivated by mathematics" ❤ Congratulations James!!!
Great interview, James is not only incredible smart, but also humble and has a catching laugh.
Dang new speed run champion for Fields Medal. Nice job
Most sincere CONGRATULATIONS!! 🥳
Something tells me that if you prove the Rieman hypothesis at age 41 then not winning the fields medal isn't going to hold you back too much…
😂
Andrew Wiles couldn't be awarded the Fields medal for proving Fermat's Last Theorem because he was 41, but he was awarded a special prize (a silver plaque)
@@andrewcgs Andrew wiles was awarded the abel prize, and a slew of other prizes. But I'm sure in his heart the best prize was being able to solve his childhood dream
Congratulations on your new addition to the family! The Fields Medal is cool too I guess.
They should totally provide you with two medals... the truly valuable one and a plated one for display.
James Maynard is one of my favorites on Numberphile but I missed this and have only just found he won the Fields. Well done James. Loved the Birth Year Mod 4 comment.
Congrats MJK !!!
What a week for this man: Winning the Fields medal AND assisting to the birth of your first child. I am so happy for him.
13:40 COULD THERE HAVE BEEN A MORE PERFECT PICTURE!?🥳💐 Congratulations on your 2 achievements, Mr. James Maynard. God bless you and your family. 🙏
congratulations to james! he is crazy genius, humble and certainly deserved it
Congratulations, Mr. Maynard! I'm proud of you, and love the way you explain your maths. Thank you for your contributions here in this channel. ♥
Mans got skills.
And for his work on Diaphantine approximations, at that!
Congratulations, James! Hard-earned but well-earned.
He seems to exemplify the joy of pursuing math! Congratulations, James Maynard!
Super cool to see a talented person rewarded for their hard work!
i agree
It's absolutely beautiful to hear James's enthusiasm and glee.
I love the fact that one of the world's finest working mathematicians has apparently quite recently run into the edge of an open door.
Ah, he. Remember some videos on this channel. This is a great honor for him. I am happy for him. And like to thank him for his contribution to the most beautiful science of all.
HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations James!!! Surreal to have seen videos with you over the years, and there you are, winning such a prestigious price!
Congratulations fr!
Congratulations to Maynard James Keenan for winning the Fields Medal for his work with the Fibonacci sequence!
Danny Carey was robbed!
What’s with the misnaming?
@@ragnkja math guy sound like tool guy
@@blower5
And?
And for his work with parabolas on Lateralus
"You're out of luck if you solve Riemann when you're 41. But if you were born just one year earlier..." ~Prize-winning mathematician! 😂
Age discrimination is everywhere...
However I truly congratulate this guy anyway!
Well, there is a different prize you'd get, specific for a list of problems that includes the Riemann conjecture. I think the prize is a million dollars.
I love that no one in the comments got your joke. He should have said "one year later."
We have a term for this in software. This is a version of the off-by-one error (this leads to being off by 2, but they all get lumped together).
Jokes aside, this again dispels the somewhat common misconception that one's proficiency in mental arithmetics is meaningfully correlated with one's ability to apply, advance, or even invent math.
Congratulations 👏👏
congratulations James!
Congratulations sir!
Congratulations James! 😊🎉
This is the first time I have heard of the medal winner before they won the Fields medal. All thanks to Numberfile.
Loved the Mod4 comment, spoken like a true mathematician.
Congrats!!
Congratulations what a joyous news, well deserved😊. Legend!
So happy for him! Wish I knew sooner, what an achievement!
What a guy... 3 time Formula 1 champion and now a fields medal!
Brady is the best at asking the simple questions we're all thinking at the time.
Big congrats🎉 love Maynard vids
Congratulations on this major achievement, sir 💯
James, you are very charismatic! I like to see you talking. Thanks for this video!
I'll guess that your son was a bigger reward... And now you have a project in creating a great human being now. congrats on both.
What a joy, congrats xx
Awww, Fields baby! Double congratulations to James!
I used to be fascinated by Nobel prizes and Fields medal. Not anymore.
The best shot of the Field Medal, ever❤️
Congrats!
So nice dude
You gotta bring this guy on more often with more number theory
This was so cool. James seems like such a chill guy, wish I had him as a lecturer in uni hahhah.
5:11 Maryna - “I can’t believe I have to sit here and accept this stupid award when I could be doing maths….”
Congratz Maynard. I look forward to what you discover next.
Well, I knew he was smart just from listening to him talk on his videos. I didn't know he was THIS smart. Good on 'em.
possibly even more exciting for him he was the subject of a question on this week's (31 July 2023) heat of University Challenge!
Oh wow! That's really exciting! Congrats!
omg congratulations!!!
Congratulations to James.
Take a bow, congratulations
What would be interesting to learn is how has winning the medal opened any doors or made work/life easier? My point is that when we as a society recognize someone's contributions, I would hope it helps the recipient in some way beyond having a pretty prize that has be locked up.
I hijacked the whole internet and I'm going to hold it hostage until humans stop launching imaginary rockets that go nowhere. The space|time to teleport out of The Matrix is whenever|whenever the math|magic hits you. 🫴✨🪄
He should have a replica made to use as a show piece.
why
Congratulations James! The picture of his son with the medal was so cute I had to screenshot it and send it to my wife 😆
The picture of his son with the medal is brilliant
James maynard won a fields medal, james maynard keenan wrote a 10minute song on the fibonacci sequence... amazing
James is awesome, so happy for him
wow, congratulations!
For myself being awarded that medal is more of value than being given the control of the whole world. I am not after fame, in fact I wouldn't tell if I were to win it. Just to feel in my heart that I have honoured the subject that for me is everything: mathematics.
Congratulations 🎉🎉
Thats a baller thumbnail
We’ve been saying for years that he’ll win one. AND HERE IT IS!!!
I think another criticism of the age limit, which James sort of alludes to, is that it may simply take a long time to solve a particular problem. For instance, Perelman locked himself away from the world for like 7 years or something to prove the Poincaré conjecture. So if he started when he was 34, he wouldn't have been eligible. It's not hard to imagine that it might take even more time devoted to a single problem to solve it. Like, what if it actually requires 20 years of work for someone to solve the Riemann hypothesis or P v NP? "Sorry sir/ma'am, you're 42, better luck next life"?
Yea except he didnt actually prove the poincare conjecture and knowingly put forth an incorrect proof in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the award which is why he didn't accept the medal cause it comes with a cash prize and it would be fraudulent of him to accept it.
@@Laocoon283 Quit talking mad bs. Perelman is a man neither for public stunts nor awards. He is (was) a mathematician of the highest caliber, and did indeed prove the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture as well as a number of other interesting new theorems related to the Ricci flow.
@@jameson44k You should read more into it. The committee established to verify the proof cannot.
@@Laocoon283 That isn't true and it isn't why he didn't accept it. You're straight making things up.
@@Laocoon283 I rarely comment on silly comments, but please stop speaking rubbish. Just because you type things with conviction doesn't make them true
This is awesome. Congratulations.
Congrats on the fields medal 😊😊
Great interview
Great contributor! Congrats to him!
congrats
I think Perelman's name will echo in mathematical eternity rather than an uncountable eternity had he accepted.
This award is from last year. This year he's just won a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize!
Congratulations to a winner!
You said "imagine solving the Riemann Hypothesis at age 41"
Worse, imagine being recognized as having solved it when you are 37 (presumably having solved it some time before but needing peer review and acknowledgement), with the next award four years away when you are 41.
Congratulations🎉🎉
So inspiring
Congratulations
Congratulations.
Congratulazioni 🏅