What happened with Eric Wofsey?
Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew,Will Sawin, Evan O'Dorney, Eric Wofsey: mathprodigies
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O'Dorney is supposed to graduate this year. He will get PhD (or probably did already) but that's about it. Just look at his website. Those music composition stuff (which aren't very good) are just distractions to cover up his struggle to excel as a top-level mathematician. He got stuck publishing undergraduate-level papers. That's about it.
Nevertheless, having the IMO medal and putnam fellow thing will allow him to land a good position at one of the top quants.O'Dorney still hasn't graduated after another year. Since his prospect in academia is pretty dim, might as well graduate sooner and start making money as a quant. Unlike Qiaochu Yuan, O'Dorney has solid credentials from IMO/Putnam which will get him somewhere.
Random fact: Qinxuan Pan (the Yale murder suspect) was an IMO teammate of O'Dorney.He will graduate this spring. Is that good enough for you?
Congratulations, Evan. This being a job rumor site, please tell us what glorious position you have secured for your next adventure.
Apparently O'Dorney has postponed graduation to 2022. Still no progress in publication.
The struggle is pointless, given that he has little chance in academia. Should have graduated sooner and just move to industry.
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Apparently O'Dorney has postponed graduation to 2022. Still no progress in publication.
The struggle is pointless, given that he has little chance in academia. Should have graduated sooner and just move to industry.False. He graduated and will start a postdoc this fall.
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Apparently O'Dorney has postponed graduation to 2022. Still no progress in publication.
The struggle is pointless, given that he has little chance in academia. Should have graduated sooner and just move to industry.False. He graduated and will start a postdoc this fall.
Either way, that's another proof that mathematical talent can't be reduced to IQ.
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O'Dorney still hasn't graduated after another year. Since his prospect in academia is pretty dim, might as well graduate sooner and start making money as a quant. Unlike Qiaochu Yuan, O'Dorney has solid credentials from IMO/Putnam which will get him somewhere.
Random fact: Qinxuan Pan (the Yale murder suspect) was an IMO teammate of O'Dorney.He will graduate this spring. Is that good enough for you?
Congratulations, Evan. This being a job rumor site, please tell us what glorious position you have secured for your next adventure.
Apparently O'Dorney has postponed graduation to 2022. Still no progress in publication.
The struggle is pointless, given that he has little chance in academia. Should have graduated sooner and just move to industry.Didn't he give a talk at the Harvard number theory seminar? Random fools don't give talks there.
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Didn't he give a talk at the Harvard number theory seminar? Random f00ls don't give talks there.
Or perhaps the organizers didn't want to have a bad relationship with his advisor.
Pretty sure the organizers are self-confident enough to not worry about that. And one of the Harvard number theorists wrote a very strong letter for Evan, so it's clear that that least they have a strong opinion of him.
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Didn't he give a talk at the Harvard number theory seminar? Random f00ls don't give talks there.
Or perhaps the organizers didn't want to have a bad relationship with his advisor.
Pretty sure the organizers are self-confident enough to not worry about that. And one of the Harvard number theorists wrote a very strong letter for Evan, so it's clear that that least they have a strong opinion of him.
What’s the explanation for that? Are there any big and impressive results under his sleeve that will become public soon? Otherwise, I can see no meritocratic explanation.
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Didn't he give a talk at the Harvard number theory seminar? Random f00ls don't give talks there.
Or perhaps the organizers didn't want to have a bad relationship with his advisor.
Pretty sure the organizers are self-confident enough to not worry about that. And one of the Harvard number theorists wrote a very strong letter for Evan, so it's clear that that least they have a strong opinion of him.
What’s the explanation for that? Are there any big and impressive results under his sleeve that will become public soon? Otherwise, I can see no meritocratic explanation.
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Didn't he give a talk at the Harvard number theory seminar? Random f00ls don't give talks there.
Or perhaps the organizers didn't want to have a bad relationship with his advisor.
Pretty sure the organizers are self-confident enough to not worry about that. And one of the Harvard number theorists wrote a very strong letter for Evan, so it's clear that that least they have a strong opinion of him.
What’s the explanation for that? Are there any big and impressive results under his sleeve that will become public soon? Otherwise, I can see no meritocratic explanation.
He certainly has not finished writing up all that he know how to prove. As to how "big" those results are, I work in a subarea of math that is too distant from his style of number theory to judge. But he did have impressive letters from very strong people.
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He certainly has not finished writing up all that he know how to prove. As to how "big" those results are, I work in a subarea of math that is too distant from his style of number theory to judge. But he did have impressive letters from very strong people.
He won’t be the first Princeton lemon to get an HRM postdoc, but I guess time will tell.
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He certainly has not finished writing up all that he know how to prove. As to how "big" those results are, I work in a subarea of math that is too distant from his style of number theory to judge. But he did have impressive letters from very strong people.
He won’t be the first Princeton lemon to get an HRM postdoc, but I guess time will tell.
His postdoc is more MRM than HRM. But since I heard what it is through the rumor mill and don't want to announce something that isn't generally known, you'll have to wait until he appears on a faculty list somewhere to see where it is...
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He certainly has not finished writing up all that he know how to prove. As to how "big" those results are, I work in a subarea of math that is too distant from his style of number theory to judge. But he did have impressive letters from very strong people.
He won’t be the first Princeton lemon to get an HRM postdoc, but I guess time will tell.
His postdoc is more MRM than HRM. But since I heard what it is through the rumor mill and don't want to announce something that isn't generally known, you'll have to wait until he appears on a faculty list somewhere to see where it is...
Doesn't matter. There are even cases of an average MRM PhD who scored a HRM postdoc by the connections of his/her advisor. It just prolonged their exit of academia by 2 years. That's what would happen to O'Dorney. If he switches to industry now at least he will make more money.
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Mathew and Sawin are normal, integrated and productive. Mathew is doing particularly cool stuff.
True. Akhil Mathew and Will Sawin are 3 levels above the other lemons mentioned in this thread.
Akhil is on Clay Research Fellowship right now. Once the term of the fellowship ends, he will be directly hired as tenured faculty at Chicago or comparable places.
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Mathew and Sawin are normal, integrated and productive. Mathew is doing particularly cool stuff.
True. Akhil Mathew and Will Sawin are 3 levels above the other lemons mentioned in this thread.
Akhil is on Clay Research Fellowship right now. Once the term of the fellowship ends, he will be directly hired as tenured faculty at Chicago or comparable places.The rumor is that Chicago voted to tenure Akhil this spring, so once they update the faculty listing he'll he either associate or full (not sure which).
I've interacted fairly extensively with both Will and Akhil, and they both are outstanding. My personal impression is that Will might be even stronger than Akhil, and he certainly has more mainstream mathematical interests. I am fairly certain that he'll be tenured at Columbia.
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Mathew and Sawin are normal, integrated and productive. Mathew is doing particularly cool stuff.
True. Akhil Mathew and Will Sawin are 3 levels above the other lemons mentioned in this thread.
Akhil is on Clay Research Fellowship right now. Once the term of the fellowship ends, he will be directly hired as tenured faculty at Chicago or comparable places.The rumor is that Chicago voted to tenure Akhil this spring, so once they update the faculty listing he'll he either associate or full (not sure which).
I've interacted fairly extensively with both Will and Akhil, and they both are outstanding. My personal impression is that Will might be even stronger than Akhil, and he certainly has more mainstream mathematical interests. I am fairly certain that he'll be tenured at Columbia.Will certainly gave off strong prodigy signals, but his mathematical work isn't particularly interesting. Akhil seems to be working on deeper stuff.
Both very strong mathematically. How are they personally?
