Winning the Fields Medal (extended interview) - Numberphile

An extended version of our interview with James Maynard about winning the Fields Medal. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓
Full 2022 Fields Medal Winners: www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/...
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  • @BillySnowball
    @BillySnowball10 ай бұрын

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

  • @inigom6400
    @inigom640010 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @petermoller8337

    @petermoller8337

    9 ай бұрын

    And your phd is in which area

  • @makhalid1999
    @makhalid199910 ай бұрын

    Bro was worried about his intrusive thoughts 💀😅

  • @MichaelOfRohan

    @MichaelOfRohan

    10 ай бұрын

    Its the human condition

  • @NoriMori1992

    @NoriMori1992

    10 ай бұрын

    But he didn't let them win!

  • @gustavrsh
    @gustavrsh10 ай бұрын

    This guy seems very down to earth

  • @bungalowjuice7225
    @bungalowjuice722510 ай бұрын

    Huge congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

  • @eXorikos
    @eXorikos10 ай бұрын

    Lovely to hear his story! Thanks for the content!

  • @You_work_tomorrow
    @You_work_tomorrow10 ай бұрын

    Finally, I needed more numberphile2, thanks

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant301210 ай бұрын

    great interview

  • @gackerman99
    @gackerman9910 ай бұрын

    congrats James, big hero of mine

  • @michaelmaguire9330
    @michaelmaguire93308 ай бұрын

    What a stellar achievement from such a relatively young person.

  • @treyquattro
    @treyquattro10 ай бұрын

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

  • @tallswede80
    @tallswede8010 ай бұрын

    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
    @munjee210 ай бұрын

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

  • @ritikd225
    @ritikd22510 ай бұрын

    If Brian Cox was a Mathematican.

  • @wktodd
    @wktodd10 ай бұрын

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

  • @timothyodonnell8591
    @timothyodonnell859110 ай бұрын

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

  • @sibabalwesinyaniso4491
    @sibabalwesinyaniso449110 ай бұрын

    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?

  • @landonkryger
    @landonkryger10 ай бұрын

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

  • @mina86

    @mina86

    10 ай бұрын

    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

    10 ай бұрын

    @@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

    10 ай бұрын

    I don't mind it

  • @landonkryger

    @landonkryger

    10 ай бұрын

    @@persistenthomology I do.

  • @treyquattro

    @treyquattro

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @edwardpaddock2528
    @edwardpaddock252810 ай бұрын

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

  • @vimalk78
    @vimalk7810 ай бұрын

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

  • @JM-us3fr

    @JM-us3fr

    10 ай бұрын

    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

  • @TheMrShameem
    @TheMrShameem10 ай бұрын

    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

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @MK-13337

    @MK-13337

    10 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @MusicFanatical1
    @MusicFanatical110 ай бұрын

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

  • @petermoller8337
    @petermoller83379 ай бұрын

    One stone

  • @maaaaaaaaarcel
    @maaaaaaaaarcel10 ай бұрын

    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

    5 ай бұрын

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