Winning the Fields Medal (with James Maynard) - Numberphile

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @andresfontalvo17
    @andresfontalvo17 Год назад +1999

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

    • @verity3616
      @verity3616 Год назад +15

      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
      @andresfontalvo17 Год назад +10

      @@verity3616 someone like google or wikipedia?

    • @RuthvenMurgatroyd
      @RuthvenMurgatroyd Год назад

      @@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
      @archimidis Год назад +9

      Imagine how underwhelming the following weeks would be...

    • @cheshire1
      @cheshire1 Год назад +36

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

  • @pyr0digm
    @pyr0digm Год назад +1705

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

  • @lashamartashvili
    @lashamartashvili Год назад +713

    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
      @Trixex Год назад +11

      Wouldn't want my baby to bite on it tho

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад +95

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

    • @highviewbarbell
      @highviewbarbell Год назад +71

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

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk Год назад +22

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

    • @erniesulovic4734
      @erniesulovic4734 Год назад +2

      LOL

  • @alexkalish8288
    @alexkalish8288 Год назад +340

    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
      @leif1075 Год назад +1

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

    • @kkgt6591
      @kkgt6591 Год назад +97

      ​@@leif1075your math grades.

    • @hansolo9892
      @hansolo9892 Год назад +6

      @@kkgt6591 😂😂🤣🤣

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 Год назад +5

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

    • @kuzuthunder1964
      @kuzuthunder1964 Год назад +30

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

  • @grev.
    @grev. Год назад +485

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

    • @shasan2393
      @shasan2393 Год назад +46

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

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja Год назад +1

      @@shasan2393
      What’s with the misnaming?

    • @shasan2393
      @shasan2393 Год назад +4

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

    • @jsheradin
      @jsheradin Год назад +1

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

    • @andrewfarrar741
      @andrewfarrar741 Год назад

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

  • @StevenStJohn-kj9eb
    @StevenStJohn-kj9eb Год назад +862

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

    • @gregkrekelberg4632
      @gregkrekelberg4632 Год назад +68

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

    • @IceMetalPunk
      @IceMetalPunk Год назад +19

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

    • @christophersmith108
      @christophersmith108 Год назад +35

      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
      @geometerfpv2804 Год назад

      ​​@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
      @anuj-mn5eo Год назад

      At Oxford University this is considered a palatial office.

  • @thedanielstraight
    @thedanielstraight Год назад +56

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

  • @datamoon
    @datamoon Год назад +19

    Congratulations!

  • @nozua
    @nozua Год назад +16

    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.

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 Год назад +86

    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
      @IceMetalPunk Год назад +16

      ... 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
      @andrewfarrar741 Год назад +2

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

    • @fahrenheit2101
      @fahrenheit2101 Год назад +3

      Provided you're a politically motivated mathematician

    • @President__Job
      @President__Job 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @Perriax
    @Perriax Год назад +18

    What an achievement! Congratulations!!

  • @Xoque551
    @Xoque551 Год назад +9

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

  • @JM-us3fr
    @JM-us3fr Год назад +92

    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
      @ImaginaryMdA 10 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @holliswilliams8426
      @holliswilliams8426 9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @ares395
    @ares395 Год назад +218

    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
      @highviewbarbell Год назад +9

      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
      @cmu6443 Год назад +1

      implies second son was born?

    • @ares395
      @ares395 Год назад +3

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

  • @plusunim
    @plusunim Год назад +5

    Most sincere CONGRATULATIONS!! 🥳

  • @captnmaico6776
    @captnmaico6776 Год назад +27

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

  • @ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious
    @ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious Год назад +47

    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
      @Beny123 Год назад +4

      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 .

  • @loebie
    @loebie Год назад +124

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

    • @javen9693
      @javen9693 Год назад +43

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

  • @svenhoek
    @svenhoek Год назад +7

    Congrats MJK !!!

  • @BraydonVargas
    @BraydonVargas Год назад +43

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

  • @chompin_cheddar
    @chompin_cheddar Год назад +7

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

  • @SoopaPop
    @SoopaPop Год назад +17

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

  • @joseffbokobza6640
    @joseffbokobza6640 Год назад +3

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

  • @KazimirQ7G
    @KazimirQ7G Год назад +2

    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. ♥

  • @CombatLegsVIDS
    @CombatLegsVIDS Год назад +10

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

  • @bernardcrnkovic3769
    @bernardcrnkovic3769 Год назад +11

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

  • @PopeLando
    @PopeLando Год назад +91

    "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
      @alfonsolarcinese8926 Год назад +6

      Age discrimination is everywhere...

    • @alfonsolarcinese8926
      @alfonsolarcinese8926 Год назад

      However I truly congratulate this guy anyway!

    • @JohnDlugosz
      @JohnDlugosz Год назад +2

      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
      @ben_clifford Год назад +24

      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
      @terencetsang9518 Год назад +9

      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.

  • @UbiquitousBooks
    @UbiquitousBooks Год назад +146

    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
      @thej3799 Год назад +6

      😂

    • @andrewcgs
      @andrewcgs Год назад +21

      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)

    • @shanggosteen9804
      @shanggosteen9804 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@andrewcgs Andrew wiles was awarded the abel prize, and a slew of other prizes. But I'm sure in his heart the best prize was being able to solve his childhood dream

  • @andrewclifton9772
    @andrewclifton9772 6 месяцев назад

    James Maynard is one of my favorites on Numberphile but I missed this and have only just found he won the Fields. Well done James. Loved the Birth Year Mod 4 comment.

  • @pacolibre5411
    @pacolibre5411 Год назад +270

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

  • @dylanrambow2704
    @dylanrambow2704 Год назад +1

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

  • @vincentbutton5926
    @vincentbutton5926 Год назад +15

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

  • @CollinHeist20
    @CollinHeist20 Год назад +4

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

  • @Datamining101
    @Datamining101 Год назад +4

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

  • @sander_bouwhuis
    @sander_bouwhuis Год назад +3

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

  • @Dat_Thing88
    @Dat_Thing88 Год назад +3

    Congratulations fr!

  • @pezboy715
    @pezboy715 Год назад +3

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

  • @desktop2815
    @desktop2815 Год назад +11

    Dang new speed run champion for Fields Medal. Nice job

  • @TomRocksMaths
    @TomRocksMaths Год назад +11

    Mans got skills.

  • @faithgrins
    @faithgrins Год назад +5

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

  • @varijavishwanath8253
    @varijavishwanath8253 Год назад +6

    Congratulations 👏👏

  • @JackDespero
    @JackDespero Год назад +8

    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.

  • @ggurunadha
    @ggurunadha Год назад +2

    Congrats!!

  • @gyubok
    @gyubok Год назад +3

    congratulations James!

  • @Bethos1247-Arne
    @Bethos1247-Arne Год назад

    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.

  • @ShayWestrip
    @ShayWestrip Год назад +4

    Big congrats🎉 love Maynard vids

  • @trevinbeattie4888
    @trevinbeattie4888 Год назад +2

    Congratulations James! 😊🎉

  • @tatertot4810
    @tatertot4810 Год назад +2

    Congratulations sir!

  • @spinity8468
    @spinity8468 Год назад

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

  • @skyless7304
    @skyless7304 Год назад

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

  • @rajeshrai5208
    @rajeshrai5208 Год назад +2

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

  • @qwkimball
    @qwkimball Год назад +7

    I love the fact that one of the world's finest working mathematicians has apparently quite recently run into the edge of an open door.

  • @busterdafydd3096
    @busterdafydd3096 Год назад

    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

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio Год назад +20

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

  • @NickCombs
    @NickCombs Год назад +9

    What would be interesting to learn is how has winning the medal opened any doors or made work/life easier? My point is that when we as a society recognize someone's contributions, I would hope it helps the recipient in some way beyond having a pretty prize that has be locked up.

    • @andrewfarrar741
      @andrewfarrar741 Год назад

      I hijacked the whole internet and I'm going to hold it hostage until humans stop launching imaginary rockets that go nowhere. The space|time to teleport out of The Matrix is whenever|whenever the math|magic hits you. 🫴✨🪄

  • @jseden1
    @jseden1 Год назад

    What a joy, congrats xx

  • @ashkara8652
    @ashkara8652 Год назад +2

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

  • @satyajeetprabhu
    @satyajeetprabhu Год назад +7

    What a guy... 3 time Formula 1 champion and now a fields medal!

  • @barmouthbridge8772
    @barmouthbridge8772 Год назад +5

    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?

  • @carltonleboss
    @carltonleboss Год назад +1

    Congrats!

  • @Vares65
    @Vares65 Год назад

    Oh wow! That's really exciting! Congrats!

  • @ziedjbeli4811
    @ziedjbeli4811 Год назад +1

    Congratulations on this major achievement, sir 💯

  • @weetabixharry
    @weetabixharry Год назад +1

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

  • @IO___II____OI
    @IO___II____OI Год назад

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

  • @IrishEye
    @IrishEye Год назад +2

    Loved the Mod4 comment, spoken like a true mathematician.

  • @n0tthemessiah
    @n0tthemessiah Год назад +38

    I think another criticism of the age limit, which James sort of alludes to, is that it may simply take a long time to solve a particular problem. For instance, Perelman locked himself away from the world for like 7 years or something to prove the Poincaré conjecture. So if he started when he was 34, he wouldn't have been eligible. It's not hard to imagine that it might take even more time devoted to a single problem to solve it. Like, what if it actually requires 20 years of work for someone to solve the Riemann hypothesis or P v NP? "Sorry sir/ma'am, you're 42, better luck next life"?

    • @Laocoon283
      @Laocoon283 Год назад

      Yea except he didnt actually prove the poincare conjecture and knowingly put forth an incorrect proof in order to demonstrate the absurdity of the award which is why he didn't accept the medal cause it comes with a cash prize and it would be fraudulent of him to accept it.

    • @jameson44k
      @jameson44k Год назад +17

      @@Laocoon283 Quit talking mad bs. Perelman is a man neither for public stunts nor awards. He is (was) a mathematician of the highest caliber, and did indeed prove the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture as well as a number of other interesting new theorems related to the Ricci flow.

    • @Laocoon283
      @Laocoon283 Год назад

      @@jameson44k You should read more into it. The committee established to verify the proof cannot.

    • @n0tthemessiah
      @n0tthemessiah Год назад +15

      @@Laocoon283 That isn't true and it isn't why he didn't accept it. You're straight making things up.

    • @MrWhiteVzla
      @MrWhiteVzla Год назад +15

      @@Laocoon283 I rarely comment on silly comments, but please stop speaking rubbish. Just because you type things with conviction doesn't make them true

  • @integrando1847
    @integrando1847 2 месяца назад +1

    So nice dude

  • @haggaisimon7748
    @haggaisimon7748 Год назад +3

    I used to be fascinated by Nobel prizes and Fields medal. Not anymore.

  • @John-pn4rt
    @John-pn4rt Год назад +1

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

  • @plbyrne
    @plbyrne Год назад

    This is awesome. Congratulations.

  • @geoffreykeane4072
    @geoffreykeane4072 Год назад

    Great interview

  • @danielfields2201
    @danielfields2201 Год назад +1

    Brady is the best at asking the simple questions we're all thinking at the time.

  • @lafcursiax
    @lafcursiax Год назад

    Awww, Fields baby! Double congratulations to James!

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges Год назад

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

  • @septopus3516
    @septopus3516 Год назад +3

    I think Perelman's name will echo in mathematical eternity rather than an uncountable eternity had he accepted.

  • @JustForYouWalden
    @JustForYouWalden Год назад +5

    I love the attitude of the relentless problem solver - thanks for the prize but have you considered that 4-yearly sampling with a 40 year cut-off is a suboptimal algorithm for discovering promising mathematicians?

  • @michael4192
    @michael4192 Год назад +2

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

  • @evilotis01
    @evilotis01 Год назад

    omg congratulations!!!

  • @raybo780
    @raybo780 Год назад

    James is awesome, so happy for him

  • @necko2529
    @necko2529 Год назад +8

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

  • @sran2007
    @sran2007 Год назад +1

    Congratulations 🎉🎉

  • @str1979
    @str1979 Год назад +114

    "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
      @johnchessant3012 Год назад +9

      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

  • @funtaste4750
    @funtaste4750 Год назад +1

    Congratulations🎉🎉

  • @kevinn1158
    @kevinn1158 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @rtpoe
    @rtpoe Год назад +2

    As to the age limit, the Nobel Prize has a limit, too. It CANNOT be awarded posthumously. That requirement, explicitly made in Nobel's will establishing the prizes, kept two eminently deserving people from winning it: Henry Moseley, who experimentally demonstrated that the major properties of an element are determined by the atomic number (died in battle in WWI just as the importance of his work was becoming known), and Oswald Avery, who proved that it was DNA that carried genetic information (died before the Nobel Prize people got around to seriously considering him).

  • @boredgrass
    @boredgrass Год назад

    The best shot of the Field Medal, ever❤️

  • @donaldasayers
    @donaldasayers Год назад +1

    Congratulations to James.

  • @quantumfineartsandfossils2152
    @quantumfineartsandfossils2152 Год назад

    3:30 here we learn that his confidence is important to him & that he analyzed its properties in the shadow of Perelman

  • @douglasmagowan2709
    @douglasmagowan2709 Год назад +1

    Brady makes a joke "if you prove the Reimann Hypothesis at age 41..." But, that is almost exactly what happened to Andrew Wiles except it was Fermat's Last Theorem.

  • @randomname285
    @randomname285 Год назад

    Great contributor! Congrats to him!

  • @alikazerani
    @alikazerani Год назад +1

    13:39 "My first son was born." Sounds like the Maynards ain't done yet.

  • @NoriMori1992
    @NoriMori1992 Год назад +1

    This award is from last year. This year he's just won a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize!

  • @bbok1616
    @bbok1616 Год назад +1

    So inspiring

  • @ehfik
    @ehfik Год назад +1

    wow, congratulations!

  • @A.K2.718
    @A.K2.718 10 месяцев назад

    James maynard won a fields medal, james maynard keenan wrote a 10minute song on the fibonacci sequence... amazing

  • @minafolco1785
    @minafolco1785 Год назад +3

    Congratulazioni 🏅

  • @drorbitaldeathray
    @drorbitaldeathray Год назад

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

  • @bartwilson2513
    @bartwilson2513 Год назад

    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.

  • @alexe3332
    @alexe3332 11 месяцев назад

    Good job mate🥇

  • @Sound557
    @Sound557 Год назад +2

    Take a bow, congratulations