Imagine having your first kid and being awarded a Fields medal on the same week. What a week!

@verity3616

9 ай бұрын

He phrased this so oddly, "his first son," that I'm wondering if it wasn't his first child, but was... just his first *son* to be born. As in, he has at least one daughter already? Would be interested if someone could confirm.

@andresfontalvo17

9 ай бұрын

@@verity3616 someone like google or wikipedia?

@RuthvenMurgatroyd

9 ай бұрын

@@verity3616 According to Wikipedia: _Maynard was born on 10 June 1987 in Chelmsford, England.[1] His partner is Eleanor Grant, a medical doctor. They have a child.[4]_ Citation [4] there is "Klarreich, Erica (June 2022). "A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers". Quanta Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022." The interview it links to reads *He and his partner, Eleanor Grant, are expecting the birth of their first child within a few days, allowing Maynard just enough time for a quick visit to Helsinki.* Which is clearly the same kid he's talking about here.

@archimidis

9 ай бұрын

Imagine how underwhelming the following weeks would be...

@cheshire1

9 ай бұрын

@@archimidis they would be super stressful because you're caring for a newborn.

The first Fields Medal was awarded in 1936, 87 years ago and now goes to James Maynard at 36, born in 1987.

@maxonmendel5757

9 ай бұрын

whoa thats cool

@n0tthemessiah

9 ай бұрын

It's kismet!

@columbus8myhw

9 ай бұрын

From this we learn the important theorem that 1936+87 = 1987+36

@maxonmendel5757

9 ай бұрын

@@Dayanto i found my nomination for next season.

@cheeseburgermonkey7104

9 ай бұрын

SYMMETRY

James has found the best usage for his Fileds Medal. It's made of noble metal, it's anti-bacterial and it's too big to be swallowed, so it makes a perfect toy for infants.

@Trixex

9 ай бұрын

Wouldn't want my baby to bite on it tho

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

9 ай бұрын

Also, a baby holding a Fields Medal is one of the most adorable images ever created.

@highviewbarbell

9 ай бұрын

​@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721the winners keep getting younger, I tell ya.

@IceMetalPunk

9 ай бұрын

@@highviewbarbell Well, they can't be over 40, so they may as well be under 1! 😁

@erniesulovic4734

9 ай бұрын

LOL

Hopefully he can parlay this into a bigger office - dude clearly deserves another whiteboard!

@gregkrekelberg4632

9 ай бұрын

@@deletereddit1102 Until they get wind of being recruited to a competing university. Then things tend to change rapidly.

@IceMetalPunk

9 ай бұрын

A tiny little whiteboard for his son to work next to him 😁

@christophersmith108

9 ай бұрын

It’s virtually a universal truth that any mathematician (or theoretical physicist) of the first order will *always* have all the whiteboard/blackboard space available to them crowded to incomprehensibility. If they have to share this space any empty gaps will have been filled with the comment “DO NOT ERASE”

@geometerfpv2804

9 ай бұрын

​​@@deletereddit1102Uh...yeah they do. He has his pick of institution. Universities care much more about research than they do about teaching. Research is their primary mission. They promote and hire based on research, and this is as prestigious a research award as you can get.

@anuj-mn5eo

8 ай бұрын

At Oxford University this is considered a palatial office.

This is the kind of guy who wins the Medal, for research on a subject that really great mathematicians have been exploring for 500+ years. Bravo James ...

@leif1075

9 ай бұрын

Who says we can't do the same thing he did?

@kkgt6591

9 ай бұрын

​@@leif1075your math grades.

@hansolo9892

9 ай бұрын

@@kkgt6591 😂😂🤣🤣

@leif1075

9 ай бұрын

@@kkgt6591 My math grades were great..Why would you assume they weren't or anything else without knowing anything about me?

@kuzuthunder1964

9 ай бұрын

@@leif1075Don’t take it seriously dude, its just trolling. Grades have nothing to do with being groundbreaking in a field anyway.

can't believe i didn't hear about this until now, one of the best numberphile contributors

@shasan2393

9 ай бұрын

I feel like a math hipster now lol. "yeah, i was familiar with James Maynard BEFORE he won the fields medal"

@ragnkja

9 ай бұрын

@@shasan2393 What’s with the misnaming?

@shasan2393

9 ай бұрын

@@ragnkja Woops, sorry mistyped his name. Just goes to show how much I was familiar with him lol

@jsheradin

9 ай бұрын

He's also now a Fellow of the Royal Society! Can't wait to see what his future work has in store.

@andrewfarrar741

9 ай бұрын

​@@jsheradinHave you heard about the Reimann solution yet? 2023 年 8 月 16 日.

I could listen to this guy talk for at least an eon or two... Congrats on this achievement, sir! 👑

Imagine winning the most famous award in your field and the next day you go back your first son is born. I'm surprised he didn't pass out from all the emotions.

@highviewbarbell

9 ай бұрын

Well that's why he's so chill in interviews. He ran out of high evergy emotion juice during that week and now his maximum excited state is a bit lower

@cmu6443

9 ай бұрын

implies second son was born?

@ares395

9 ай бұрын

@@cmu6443 That's not at all how English works.

12:06 I was discussing this with a friend and we agreed that the optimal time for a kid to be born is around September of a 2 (mod 4) year: they'd turn 40 right after the last Fields Medal they're eligible for, and they'd turn 18 right before the first US presidential election they're eligible for

@IceMetalPunk

9 ай бұрын

... I was born in September 1990. I guess I have a lot of work to do over the next 6-years-and-1-month 😂

@andrewfarrar741

9 ай бұрын

@@IceMetalPunk The spirit of an atomic ninja already exists inside you. ⚛️🥷

@fahrenheit2101

6 ай бұрын

Provided you're a politically motivated mathematician

@President__Job

4 ай бұрын

Funny how i was born September 2002 I am a math major and my last name means "presedent" in my language

Most sincere CONGRATULATIONS!! 🥳

What an achievement! Congratulations!!

Congratulations, Mr. Maynard! I'm proud of you, and love the way you explain your maths. Thank you for your contributions here in this channel. ♥

So happy for you James, and for the journey to be brilliantly documented by Numberphile! Such a dream come true! :)

Congratulations!

It's absolutely beautiful to hear James's enthusiasm and glee.

Congratulations on your new addition to the family! The Fields Medal is cool too I guess.

Imagine being born and one of the first thing handed to you is a Fields Medal

@javen9693

9 ай бұрын

For his playful yet elegant proof of the drooling conjecture and his stunning expansions in the field of diaperometry

4:55 I was super hyped to see June Huh among the winners! He was an amazing expositor in the "g-conjecture" video, which is one of my favorite Numberphile videos.

Great interview, James is not only incredible smart, but also humble and has a catching laugh.

I love how at 4:52 James Maynard is the only one smiling. Everyone else is like "Let's get this over with so I can go back to researching"

@ImaginaryMdA

3 ай бұрын

I don't think you can blame Ukranian mathematician Maryna Viazovska at that particular time.

@holliswilliams8426

2 ай бұрын

Viazovska was going through difficult times and had young colleagues and students who died during the Russia-Ukraine war.

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations James!!! Surreal to have seen videos with you over the years, and there you are, winning such a prestigious price!

I love this style of video. Interviewing mathematicians is really tickling my anthropology bone

Congratulations fr!

"Most mathematicians are really motivated by mathematics" Congratulations James!!!. congratulations to james! he is crazy genius, humble and certainly deserved it.

Congratulations what a joyous news, well deserved😊. Legend!

Congratulations James! 😊🎉

Congrats!!

congratulations James!

Big congrats🎉 love Maynard vids

Great interview

Congratulations sir!

What a joy, congrats xx

Oh wow! That's really exciting! Congrats!

congratulations to james! he is crazy genius, humble and certainly deserved it

Congrats MJK !!!

This is awesome. Congratulations.

Something tells me that if you prove the Rieman hypothesis at age 41 then not winning the fields medal isn't going to hold you back too much…

@thej3799

9 ай бұрын

😂

@andrewcgs

9 ай бұрын

Andrew Wiles couldn't be awarded the Fields medal for proving Fermat's Last Theorem because he was 41, but he was awarded a special prize (a silver plaque)

Congratulations James !

13:42 photographic evidence of world record fields medal speedrun. run time: less than 1 day

James, you are very charismatic! I like to see you talking. Thanks for this video!

Great contributor! Congrats to him!

Congrats!

I don't think I'll ever be able to understand the work that's gone into the achievement, but I do have an idea of the magnitude of the achievement, congratulations!

@Beny123

9 ай бұрын

I can safely say working like crazy for 20+ years and being lucky enough to be born in a place and time to have great tutors/parents .

Ah, he. Remember some videos on this channel. This is a great honor for him. I am happy for him. And like to thank him for his contribution to the most beautiful science of all.

Congratulations 👏👏

So happy for him! Wish I knew sooner, what an achievement!

Congratulations on this major achievement, sir 💯

Super cool to see a talented person rewarded for their hard work!

@holliswilliams8426

2 ай бұрын

i agree

They should totally provide you with two medals... the truly valuable one and a plated one for display.

"You're out of luck if you solve Riemann when you're 41. But if you were born just one year earlier..." ~Prize-winning mathematician! 😂

@alfonsolarcinese8926

9 ай бұрын

Age discrimination is everywhere...

@alfonsolarcinese8926

9 ай бұрын

However I truly congratulate this guy anyway!

@JohnDlugosz

9 ай бұрын

Well, there is a different prize you'd get, specific for a list of problems that includes the Riemann conjecture. I think the prize is a million dollars.

@ben_clifford

9 ай бұрын

I love that no one in the comments got your joke. He should have said "one year later." We have a term for this in software. This is a version of the off-by-one error (this leads to being off by 2, but they all get lumped together).

@terencetsang9518

9 ай бұрын

Jokes aside, this again dispels the somewhat common misconception that one's proficiency in mental arithmetics is meaningfully correlated with one's ability to apply, advance, or even invent math.

This was so cool. James seems like such a chill guy, wish I had him as a lecturer in uni hahhah.

Well done!

Awww, Fields baby! Double congratulations to James!

13:40 COULD THERE HAVE BEEN A MORE PERFECT PICTURE!?🥳💐 Congratulations on your 2 achievements, Mr. James Maynard. God bless you and your family. 🙏

Dang new speed run champion for Fields Medal. Nice job

omg congratulations!!!

James is awesome, so happy for him

And for his work on Diaphantine approximations, at that! Congratulations, James! Hard-earned but well-earned.

Congratulations 🎉🎉

Congratz Maynard. I look forward to what you discover next.

Good job mate🥇

"Most mathematicians are really motivated by mathematics" ❤ Congratulations James!!!

Congratulations to Maynard James Keenan for winning the Fields Medal for his work with the Fibonacci sequence!

@mdmn-ARCA

9 ай бұрын

Danny Carey was robbed!

@ragnkja

9 ай бұрын

What’s with the misnaming?

@blower5

9 ай бұрын

@@ragnkja math guy sound like tool guy

@ragnkja

9 ай бұрын

@@blower5 And?

@aksldfoityawiejfsdnfakldjfxcoi

9 ай бұрын

And for his work with parabolas on Lateralus

He seems to exemplify the joy of pursuing math! Congratulations, James Maynard!

Congratulations🎉🎉

So inspiring

Congratulations to James.

wow, congratulations!

The best shot of the Field Medal, ever❤️

Congratulazioni 🏅

After all the years that you have been doing these it really is time you learned to hold a camera steady.

Congratulazioni!

Congrats on the fields medal 😊😊

You gotta bring this guy on more often with more number theory

Congratulations James! The picture of his son with the medal was so cute I had to screenshot it and send it to my wife 😆

Congratulations to a winner!

congrats

Congratulations

possibly even more exciting for him he was the subject of a question on this week's (31 July 2023) heat of University Challenge!

Great questions

This is the first time I have heard of the medal winner before they won the Fields medal. All thanks to Numberfile.

He should have a replica made to use as a show piece.

@xTeehe

9 ай бұрын

why

Gongratulations!!

Congrats

Love this guy on here. Numberphile through Brady has introduced us to so many likeable affable clever folk. I've made a list of my favourites which certainly isn't exhaustive. Holly Krieger, Hannah Fry, Zvezdelina Stankova, David Eisenbud, Ron Graham, Edward Frenkel. Who was your favourite and what distinguished them in your eyes?

Congratulations to him.

What a week for this man: Winning the Fields medal AND assisting to the birth of your first child. I am so happy for him.

Loved the Mod4 comment, spoken like a true mathematician.

I'll guess that your son was a bigger reward... And now you have a project in creating a great human being now. congrats on both.

Congratulations.

Well, I knew he was smart just from listening to him talk on his videos. I didn't know he was THIS smart. Good on 'em.

5:11 Maryna - “I can’t believe I have to sit here and accept this stupid award when I could be doing maths….”

Congrats! Reading the title, i was gonna ask if it was for '46 and 2' or something else.

14:26. You can put in a see through cupboard.. a display case . Heard of them? Also make sure the display case is screwed down and/or weighted and bullet proof, so you don't fear it being stolen

Bravo James Maynard

Congratulations James Maynard 🎉🏅

Mans got skills.

"if you're 41 you can't win . . if you only were born a year earlier" . . then you would be 42 . . so you couldn't win either - classic math mistake of a field medal winner 😂

@johnchessant3012

8 ай бұрын

He said it slightly wrong but I believe the scenario he had in mind was something like this: born in 1989 -> proves major result in 2026 (age 37), but after that year's winners were already decided -> next Fields medal awarded 2030 (age 41) -> too old born one year earlier in 1988 -> proves major result in 2025 (age 37) -> next Fields medal awarded 2026 (age 38) -> yay

Take a bow, congratulations

I wish there was more footage on the medal itself!