Winning the Fields Medal (extended interview) - Numberphile

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  • @BillySnowball
    @BillySnowball Рік тому +49

    'I had this very awkward period of socialising with other mathematicians' never a truer word said

  • @inigom6400
    @inigom6400 Рік тому +49

    Prof. Maynard lectured linear algebra II for first year undergrads in maths and he is certainly a very good lecturer. Also a decent drawer on whiteboard haha. Kinda surreal to have a Field's medalist teaching me basic linear algebra.

  • @makhalid1999
    @makhalid1999 Рік тому +82

    Bro was worried about his intrusive thoughts 💀😅

  • @gustavrsh
    @gustavrsh Рік тому +31

    This guy seems very down to earth

  • @You_work_tomorrow
    @You_work_tomorrow Рік тому +11

    Finally, I needed more numberphile2, thanks

  • @Try2Tri
    @Try2Tri Рік тому +2

    Lovely to hear his story! Thanks for the content!

  • @bungalowjuice7225
    @bungalowjuice7225 Рік тому +3

    Huge congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Рік тому +2

    great interview

  • @treyquattro
    @treyquattro Рік тому +4

    James should make a Run DMC-style pendant out of his medal to wear to those dinner parties. I would.

  • @michaelmaguire9330
    @michaelmaguire9330 Рік тому

    What a stellar achievement from such a relatively young person.

  • @gackerman99
    @gackerman99 Рік тому +1

    congrats James, big hero of mine

  • @tallswede80
    @tallswede80 Рік тому +5

    so when you win the field medal, the prize is that you get a field to run around in, or farm or whatever you want to do with it.

  • @munjee2
    @munjee2 Рік тому +1

    I completely missed that his son was holding the medal in the original video

  • @ritikd225
    @ritikd225 Рік тому +3

    If Brian Cox was a Mathematican.

  • @landonkryger
    @landonkryger Рік тому +27

    I hate seeing an extended cut after finishing the main video. I don't want to see the same interview twice.

    • @mina86
      @mina86 Рік тому +5

      I get what you’re saying, but at the same time link to this video was in description of the one on main channel.

    • @landonkryger
      @landonkryger Рік тому +3

      @@mina86 I get what you're saying, but at the same time, there's no way I should have known to click the link to this video at the start of that video. Brady often does these interviews and the bonus video is only extra content, not duplicate content.

    • @persistenthomology
      @persistenthomology Рік тому

      I don't mind it

    • @landonkryger
      @landonkryger Рік тому +3

      @@persistenthomology I do.

    • @treyquattro
      @treyquattro Рік тому +3

      so just skip the part you've already seen. It's not an imposition from Wittgenstein or anything.

  • @wktodd
    @wktodd Рік тому +5

    The Maynards are multiplying ... Other mathematical jokes are available

  • @TheMrShameem
    @TheMrShameem Рік тому +1

    Why don't they make a second version of the Fields Medal for people over 40, or does it exist and is just not as talked about?

    • @johnk7025
      @johnk7025 Рік тому +2

      There are other rewards, not Fields, I think only for older mathematicians.

    • @MK-13337
      @MK-13337 Рік тому +10

      The prizes that have no age limit usually go to older mathematicians with a long career and a corresponding amount of publications. There are a few, most notably the Abel prize.

  • @Sibabalwe_Sinyaniso
    @Sibabalwe_Sinyaniso Рік тому

    Hey Numberphile I'm a junior Data Engineer working with problems that I think in my Humble opinions are sequential meaning you can solve them by drawing a graph in the conceptual stage, is it always clear on what's missing when you mathematicians solve problems? Like do you know what's the next step and just don't know how to arrive there? Is it the 'how' that's missing?

  • @vimalk78
    @vimalk78 Рік тому +2

    didn't you interview him already for his Fields Medal ?

    • @JM-us3fr
      @JM-us3fr Рік тому +2

      No I think he mostly interviewed him on some interesting result he had proven. Some were definitely huge leaps in the field of sieve theory, so he definitely earned the Fields Medal

  • @MusicFanatical1
    @MusicFanatical1 Рік тому

    He should wear it every day around his neck when at work, giving lectures, eating in the canteen...

  • @timothyodonnell8591
    @timothyodonnell8591 Рік тому

    Brady - great interview! You have considerable interviewing talent. Have you ever considered being a talk show host?

  • @edwardpaddock2528
    @edwardpaddock2528 Рік тому

    Amusingly, Helsinki is actually closer to the Ukraine than St. Petersburg is. (about 100 km closer, as it turns out.)

  • @petermoller8337
    @petermoller8337 Рік тому

    One stone

  • @maaaaaaaaarcel
    @maaaaaaaaarcel Рік тому +2

    But who the f. cares, if you solved the Riemann Hypothesis, whether you get the Fields medal or not? If you solved the RH, you solved the RH. I guess Andrew Wiles will be forgotten by history, since after all, he didn't get Fermat in time for his Fields medal...

    • @litterpicker1431
      @litterpicker1431 Рік тому

      It's like the sticker they give you at school when you learn your twelve times table, but bigger, and less sticky.