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fhdkweig
2 days ago
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Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conj...
The Fields Medal has a cutoff age of 40 years old.
jebarker
2 days ago
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My understanding is that that’s more about encouraging younger mathematicians rather than an expectation that older ones won’t produce anything worthy.
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ameliaquining
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Sort of. It's complicated and there was politics involved.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210324121533/https://www.natur...
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jebarker
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Thanks for sharing, it's much more complicated than I believed.
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