tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post7287570740797187274..comments2023-12-09T04:56:42.838-04:00Comments on Stop Timothy Gowers! !!!: And who actually got Fields medals?Owlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-2872795761843540662017-05-15T01:51:41.166-03:002017-05-15T01:51:41.166-03:00Prime Goat:
Sorry for the belated reply.
This ph...Prime Goat:<br /><br />Sorry for the belated reply.<br /><br />This phenomenon is not specific to analysis. It seems that papers with only 1 author are disappearing.<br /><br />For one things, at sometimes it known who contributed the main ideas. Sometimes it is clear that all papers where X is one of the authors are of highest level, and the papers of her/his coauthors without X are not. Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-5545364979505304012016-08-18T14:07:43.372-03:002016-08-18T14:07:43.372-03:00
I think unfair to give the prize for analysis spe...<br />I think unfair to give the prize for analysis specialists, because, for example , how to assess Avila working on an individual basis ? In your case , 2 to 3 employees per paper. you can not see what he imagined.<br />Or am I wrong?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05713783470434227487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-67463536373947134672016-04-04T23:33:49.065-03:002016-04-04T23:33:49.065-03:00J.S.:
No, no predictions. I lost interest in thi...J.S.: <br /><br />No, no predictions. I lost interest in this vanity fair. <br /><br />Since the very first Abel prize, I watched the announcements online. The last two times (2015 and 2016) I forgot about them completely and even did not bothered to find out the date. Both times I learned the winners from the AMS site. I have no problems with both choices. On the other hand, they are not Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-5106640516536754842016-03-03T19:34:12.626-04:002016-03-03T19:34:12.626-04:00Any predictions for 2018? Who will win? Who should...Any predictions for 2018? Who will win? Who should win? (if it was to be decided now) It's a pleasure to read your posts, you probably had fun writing them. ;)J. S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13149488381215065260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-24989940790187346892014-11-14T22:44:04.278-04:002014-11-14T22:44:04.278-04:00edwardlyon.mitchell: continuation.
It seems that ...edwardlyon.mitchell: continuation.<br /><br />It seems that nowadays the choice of medalists is determined almost exclusively by politics.<br /><br />I am not aware of any evidence that IMU is dominated by UK and France. If it is dominated by any country or a small group of countries, then it is either by the US or by the US together with the West Europe.<br /><br />Grisha is not the last great Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-28359889334595499782014-11-14T22:14:29.010-04:002014-11-14T22:14:29.010-04:00edwardlyon.mitchell: There is nothing special in a...edwardlyon.mitchell: There is nothing special in awarding only two medals. For the first time more than two medals (four) were awarded in 1996. In 1982 only 3 medals were awarded. There was a more than natural 4th candidate, but, apparently, a lot of politics intervened, from international relations to the friction between various branches of mathematics. The 1982 Congress was exceptional in manyOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-54698143083100212014-11-10T11:47:27.261-04:002014-11-10T11:47:27.261-04:00Anyone know hat happened in 2002, when the committ...Anyone know hat happened in 2002, when the committee elected just two Fields laureates instead of four?<br /><br />I believe that, at the time, Grisha Perelman was already eligible for the prize due to his achievements in solving long standing problems in geometry. It was necessary for the guy to solve one of hardest problems in history to be elected to the Fields. Shame on you, IMU.<br /><br />edwardlyon.mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777523998625295716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-28066128059559929162014-08-29T10:09:44.848-03:002014-08-29T10:09:44.848-03:00mtsyr: The cardinality of the set of exceptions is...mtsyr: The cardinality of the set of exceptions is irrelevant. If we will start discussing mathematics taking into account how many people do this or that, there will be nothing to discuss. 99.9999% of the people don't even know that mathematics exists in any other form than something they teach in schools. Much more people are working in physics than in mathematics. They always be a majorityOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-76207725403551120702014-08-29T08:23:25.764-03:002014-08-29T08:23:25.764-03:00Well, in this case the set exceptions is so waste ...Well, in this case the set exceptions is so waste that it qualiifies for a new rule. Like it or not, when mathematics intertwines with physics literature, obvious social and political issues arise. This, naturally, affects writing.<br /><br />I'm puzzled where does the perception of Hairer as "an applied mathematician" come from. There seem to be no claims of "applicability&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-24055375377734363762014-08-28T23:00:04.674-03:002014-08-28T23:00:04.674-03:00Jamie Vitara: First, to listen to his own talk is ...Jamie Vitara: First, to listen to his own talk is useless for the purposes at hand. Nobody is expected to objectively evaluate her or his work in public. Just the opposite, everybody is expected to promote her or his own work.<br /><br />Second, I am unable to watch more than 10 minutes of a video recording of mathematical talk. After 10 minutes I am bored beyond all limits. The subject of the Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-73257701597062627572014-08-28T22:05:17.391-03:002014-08-28T22:05:17.391-03:00Correction: what this main mean --> what this m...Correction: what this main mean --> what this may meanOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-66842247948152754802014-08-28T22:03:41.653-03:002014-08-28T22:03:41.653-03:00mtsyr: Apologies are accepted. Of course, in order...mtsyr: Apologies are accepted. Of course, in order to say something about a paper, I need the whole paper, not just the abstract. Very often abstracts are nearly complete nonsense, especially when a journal requires an abstract.<br /><br />A couple of remarks about links - this may be useful in the future. First, these were not links, just addresses. Second, I do not follows any links unless I Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-47734526991889877372014-08-28T12:29:00.181-03:002014-08-28T12:29:00.181-03:00A good way to get some idea about Hairer's wor...A good way to get some idea about Hairer's work is to watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pyO1xCv-Y" rel="nofollow">his talk at ICM</a> with an introduction by Zeitouni. Another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U252MxzTnU" rel="nofollow">talk by Borodin</a> also mentions Hairer's work and puts it in some perspective. Actually, if you have an hour to waste, please, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11917411088771700306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-34062109550738177262014-08-28T10:45:12.476-03:002014-08-28T10:45:12.476-03:00Dear Owl, I apologize for my tone. It is easy to l...Dear Owl, I apologize for my tone. It is easy to lose temper when one provides something clearly relevant for the discussion and hears back what sounds like "I'm too lazy to follow the link"; I did not notice that you were talking about the full texts, as my point is already clear from the abstracts. That said, I admit that I should have put my comment in a more acceptable form.<br Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-10155344278149536622014-08-28T08:25:22.317-03:002014-08-28T08:25:22.317-03:00mtsyr: Wow, I had no idea that URL can be copy-pas...mtsyr: Wow, I had no idea that URL can be copy-pasted in the browser address. That's unbelievable. You know, with this advise you crossed a line. I left livejournal.com to a big extent because of such manners of many users. You are not welcome here anymore. I hope that the technological means to deal with this situation will not be needed.<br /><br />After following the first "link"Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-44316436711215136542014-08-28T06:20:27.122-03:002014-08-28T06:20:27.122-03:00To make the links work, just copy them into browse...To make the links work, just copy them into browser line. The papers are in Inventiones mathematicae and the Annals of Mathematics, the titles: "Instanton counting on blowup. I. 4-dimensional pure gauge theory", "Derivation of the cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation from quantum dynamics of many-body systems", "The universal relation between scaling exponents in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-21406692258802089422014-08-27T21:18:10.071-03:002014-08-27T21:18:10.071-03:00mtsyr: I am sorry, but I am too lazy for transform...mtsyr: I am sorry, but I am too lazy for transforming your links into links which will allow me to access these papers from this computer.<br /><br />The rest is irrelevant. Preprint is a preprint, and before submitting a paper it is adjusted to the journal. This can be done after submitting too. Minor changes, like removing the word "mathematical", can be done even after the paper is Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-36228699486088487402014-08-27T08:54:52.298-03:002014-08-27T08:54:52.298-03:00mtsyr: It seems that you know Hairer's work we...mtsyr: It seems that you know Hairer's work well. Did you read Arnold's book? It is much more elementary and accessible. If you did, the difference should be obvious to you. Anyhow, the most obvious difference is the fact that the Arnold's book is a <b>book</b>, and Hairer's is paper is a research paper in a journal devoted to research paper's in mathematics only.<br /><br />IOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-6214348357809218032014-08-27T08:05:23.408-03:002014-08-27T08:05:23.408-03:00Could you point out the difference between Arnold&...Could you point out the difference between Arnold's case and this one? A major part of the theory of KPZ equation is even less a branch of mathematics than Classical Mechanics. Not all mathematical methods are useful for KPZ equation. So your reasoning "exonerating" Arnold (or e. g. Sinai with his "Theory of phase transitions: rigorous results") perfectly applies to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-5625799844724092252014-08-27T06:52:22.696-03:002014-08-27T06:52:22.696-03:00mtsyr: A (pure) mathematician is working in mathem...mtsyr: A (pure) mathematician is working in mathematics, and everything he does as a mathematician is "mathematical" by default.There is no need to add this qualification. Quite the opposite, if a research paper contains something not belonging to mathematics (for example, motivation, or not rigorous by the current standards arguments for the benefit of general public), then <i><b>this<Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-50755051149833665362014-08-26T09:57:36.322-03:002014-08-26T09:57:36.322-03:00Dear Sowa, Could you please clarify "A (pure)...Dear Sowa, Could you please clarify "A (pure) mathematician would never write..." statement above? Admittedly, Hairer works on the subject which has been (previously) much more discussed in the physics literature than in the mathematical one. Does this fact alone make him a "non-mathematician" or "applied mathematician"? Otherwise it seems natural to stress the levelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-30137573433602277612014-08-20T15:55:11.039-03:002014-08-20T15:55:11.039-03:00congrats to Sowa for being so amazingly psychic ab...congrats to Sowa for being so amazingly psychic about the awards. doubt that many mathematicians could have matched this prowess and its based on a very deep grasp of both math & politics. amused as always by the intense "inside baseball", the moderate hostility toward applied mathematics & Hairer in particular who also has a strong CS side to him. more opinions in <a href="httpAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10048739391910999672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-35460592423581301842014-08-20T07:14:35.733-03:002014-08-20T07:14:35.733-03:00shopkins: Sorry. This means that either I, or thes...shopkins: Sorry. This means that either I, or these people were mistaken. May be it was in 1986 (and only 3 medals were awarded, as far as I remember), may be these people didn't knew when he was born. There was no Wikipedia, no internet - it was hard to know the age of anybody. And the rule wasn't fully formalized till 1994.Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-66374234898880920672014-08-20T06:59:59.503-03:002014-08-20T06:59:59.503-03:00I don't think that this is a suitable place fo...I don't think that this is a suitable place for a discussion of either of these two topics. These topic are independent, and asking about both of them in the same comment doesn't looks nice. Using for such comments an account created the same day does not look nice either (in livejournal this was hardly acceptable).Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13083493391293465339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8062754651764668865.post-35786570296406305662014-08-20T04:11:26.433-03:002014-08-20T04:11:26.433-03:00According to wikipedia, Lusztig was born in 1946, ...According to wikipedia, Lusztig was born in 1946, so I do not see how people could've been sure that he would get the 1990 medal. He did recently win the significant Shaw Prize; and I think he is an excellent candidate to be awarded the Abel Prize at some point.shopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02320295517689731413noreply@blogger.com