I just don't get Arran Fernandez's placement
can someone explain it to me? he was un-hireable by 400+ other universities?
I saw his interview and he was friendly, funny and mild-mannered (as if any of that matters in math)
Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew,Will Sawin, Evan O'Dorney, Eric Wofsey: mathprodigies
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Arran, enjoy your life there.
Northern Cyprus is paradise.
I just don't get Arran Fernandez's placement
can someone explain it to me? he was un-hireable by 400+ other universities?
I saw his interview and he was friendly, funny and mild-mannered (as if any of that matters in math)
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The only name I (non-math guy) recognize is O'Dorney. I think if this shows anything, it's once again how hard it is to forecast superstardom.
https://deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/there-is-no-magic/
“Although it is difficult to predict from an early age if someone will be a great mathematician, I will attempt to make my point by considering what I believe to be the three safest bets, Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew, and Eric Wofsey. All three are around twenty years old, have shown great mathematical promise, and most relevantly, have some recorded history of their learning process.”
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Can't believe OP forgot this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran_Fernandez
I've got couple moreKeep em coming. Who is the new generation of these uber math prodigies?
I know it's specifically for math, but here's a list of adderall STEM-prodigies (of age). No bulling pls, this is just a analysis of output/contributions by prodigies i've tracked through the years
https://thebestschools.org/features/former-smartest-teens-where-are-they-now/
couldn't find a good one for Jacob Barnett so this one (along with a number of other prodigies) will do, though IIRC there was some family drama/issues regarding his adopted brother or something?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Gonzalez_Pasterski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_W._Barton (interesting path as he didnt obtain PHD until 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine (including him due to the fact that he was homeschooled, but his father didn't obtain a education past HS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Tian_Boedihardjo (compare this to Fernandez, really interested to see what happened)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kane_(mathematician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Huey-You (just turned 18 this year)
If you really wanna go deep into tracking others you can look up the archived sites for theil fellows/intel competitions and see where they are today. (On a related note, does anyone have the full episode of the 2012 thiel fellowship that aired on CNBC? IIRC Taylor Wilson won that one but there were a handful of math-blokes in that. I have their CVs archived but too lazy to find em). I also would post more but knowing how EJRM is I fear personal attacks (for instance there is this bloke who literally wore a anime t-shirt for award photo for math competition).
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The only name I (non-math guy) recognize is O'Dorney. I think if this shows anything, it's once again how hard it is to forecast superstardom.
https://deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/there-is-no-magic/
“Although it is difficult to predict from an early age if someone will be a great mathematician, I will attempt to make my point by considering what I believe to be the three safest bets, Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew, and Eric Wofsey. All three are around twenty years old, have shown great mathematical promise, and most relevantly, have some recorded history of their learning process.”In other words, whoever wrote that blog entry made his judgement based on their internet presences. I think in general that's why these individuals are known to so many people. It's sort of weird to be scrutinizing undergrads you've never met based on what they post online. Now a decade later you people are gloating because their lives changed and are now doing other things instead of spewing forth piles of abstract papers to meet someone else's expectations.
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The only name I (non-math guy) recognize is O'Dorney. I think if this shows anything, it's once again how hard it is to forecast superstardom.
https://deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/there-is-no-magic/
“Although it is difficult to predict from an early age if someone will be a great mathematician, I will attempt to make my point by considering what I believe to be the three safest bets, Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew, and Eric Wofsey. All three are around twenty years old, have shown great mathematical promise, and most relevantly, have some recorded history of their learning process.”In other words, whoever wrote that blog entry made his judgement based on their internet presences. I think in general that's why these individuals are known to so many people. It's sort of weird to be scrutinizing undergrads you've never met based on what they post online. Now a decade later you people are gloating because their lives changed and are now doing other things instead of spewing forth piles of abstract papers to meet someone else's expectations.
It's a general problem of our age, that we judge people's importance by their on-line influence. See: Wolfers.
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I just don't get Arran Fernandez's placement
can someone explain it to me? he was un-hireable by 400+ other universities?
I saw his interview and he was friendly, funny and mild-mannered (as if any of that matters in math)His papers were all published in 3rd-tier (or 4th-tier) journals. He was simply not compatitive.
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I just don't get Arran Fernandez's placement
can someone explain it to me? he was un-hireable by 400+ other universities?
I saw his interview and he was friendly, funny and mild-mannered (as if any of that matters in math)His papers were all published in 3rd-tier (or 4th-tier) journals. He was simply not compatitive.
He's also lists his main interest as "fractional calculus". This is not so trendy, shall we say.
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Eh, I'd argue that Academia in the last thirty year has been poisoned by rote memorizing hard working types. The eccentric absent minded professor who cant keep his life together but has a passion for some obscure field is being beaten out for top spots by careerists.
Are you talking about math? Because IMO there's nothing wrong with "rote memorizing hard working types" per se. But there's tons of things wrong with smooth talking, backstabbing, win-at-all-costs careerists, and it's those people who've poisoned academia.
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Might a big breakthrough come in a field that isn't trendy? I mean is it realistically possible or pie in the sky? Sounds kinda cool, differentiating to non-integer order, in a "worth exploring to find out where it leads" sense. It might be that others in the field don't have such a strong background so he thinks he might find something they haven't??
He's also lists his main interest as "fractional calculus". This is not so trendy, shall we say.
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What is incredible about it?
Northern Cyprus is incredible.
Can't believe OP forgot this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arran_Fernandez
I've got couple moreWent from youngest wrangler to Cyprus uni, wtf
It's "Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus" so that's an ultimate directional school! But worse, Northern Cyprus is the occupied territory after the Turkey-Greece proxy war on Cyprus. No country in the world, other than Turkey, recognizes Northern Cyprus. European Union does not recognize Northern Cyprus.
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Terence Tao has had an interest in fractional calculus.
Might a big breakthrough come in a field that isn't trendy? I mean is it realistically possible or pie in the sky? Sounds kinda cool, differentiating to non-integer order, in a "worth exploring to find out where it leads" sense. It might be that others in the field don't have such a strong background so he thinks he might find something they haven't??
He's also lists his main interest as "fractional calculus". This is not so trendy, shall we say.
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He might have a passing interest, beats me. I don't think any top 100 department employs someone whose "main interest" is fractional calculus. Not many, anyway.
Terence Tao has had an interest in fractional calculus.
Might a big breakthrough come in a field that isn't trendy? I mean is it realistically possible or pie in the sky? Sounds kinda cool, differentiating to non-integer order, in a "worth exploring to find out where it leads" sense. It might be that others in the field don't have such a strong background so he thinks he might find something they haven't??
He's also lists his main interest as "fractional calculus". This is not so trendy, shall we say.
