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Yes, stunned at the news.
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US.
The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which had spread to her bones.
Nicknamed the "Nobel Prize for Mathematics", the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40.
It was given to Prof Mirzakhani in 2014 for her work on complex geometry and dynamical systems.
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the US.
The 40-year-old Iranian, a professor at Stanford University, had breast cancer which had spread to her bones.
Nicknamed the "Nobel Prize for Mathematics", the Fields Medal is only awarded every four years to between two and four mathematicians under 40.
It was given to Prof Mirzakhani in 2014 for her work on complex geometry and dynamical systems.
I just googled Daniel Tammet. He's not a mathematician, but has been able to recite the decimal expansion of pi to over 22,000 digits; this stunt took him over five hours. Wow, impressive, but I completely don't see the point.
He also attributes district colors and personalities to the natural numbers. Huh.
Some people, Richard Feynman was one, see formulas and numbers in color. There's a name for that talent, which I don't recall at the moment, probably because I don't have it.
True story. I met Nick Perry at the PAA once after the fix. Nice guy. Seemed defeated.
Synesthesia. It was a literary topic during the Romantic Movement. It's also a central theme in Nobokov's "The Gift."
You may be thinking of the term "idiot savant." Where a person has extraordinary talent with no training in the field.
Well, yes and no. The guy is an idiot savant, but the talent I was referring to is seeing formulas in color, which is called synesthesia, as mn78psu83 pointed out.
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