Why do all these Indian maths guys have East Asian GFs/wives?
Qiaochu Yuan, Akhil Mathew,Will Sawin, Evan O'Dorney, Eric Wofsey: mathprodigies
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Frankly I don’t understand why Bhargava‘s works, particularly the Gauss composition stuff, deserve a Fields medal or even exalted publication in the form of a series of six papers in Annals. This stuff has exactly zero impact in modern number theory and is clearly a dead end. It’s hardly surprising that his students who work in this area have lackluster careers.
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Frankly I don’t understand why Bhargava‘s works, particularly the Gauss composition stuff, deserve a Fields medal or even exalted publication in the form of a series of six papers in Annals. This stuff has exactly zero impact in modern number theory and is clearly a dead end. It’s hardly surprising that his students who work in this area have lackluster careers.
Bhargava's work is beautiful. The issue is the applicability is limited.
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Frankly I don’t understand why Bhargava‘s works, particularly the Gauss composition stuff, deserve a Fields medal or even exalted publication in the form of a series of six papers in Annals. This stuff has exactly zero impact in modern number theory and is clearly a dead end. It’s hardly surprising that his students who work in this area have lackluster careers.
Peter Sarnak of Princeton University has said of Bhargava:
"At mathematics he's at the very top end. For a guy so young I can't remember anybody so decorated at his age. He certainly started out with a bang and has not let it get to his head, which is unusual. Of course he couldn't do what he does if he wasn't brilliant. It's his exceptional talent that's so striking"
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Frankly I don’t understand why Bhargava‘s works, particularly the Gauss composition stuff, deserve a Fields medal or even exalted publication in the form of a series of six papers in Annals. This stuff has exactly zero impact in modern number theory and is clearly a dead end. It’s hardly surprising that his students who work in this area have lackluster careers.
Bhargava's work is beautiful. The issue is the applicability is limited.
Can you explain what you mean by beautiful? A lot of simple proofs are beautiful too. But they are not great in the sense that they don't open up new fields or contribute substantially to advancing the research.
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Did Evan O'Dorney write any good mathematics paper? Or is he going to quant finance as his predecessors did?
O'Dorney has not published any significant papers. He is likely on his way to industry.
Still, he has fared a lot better than jobless drifters like Qiaochu Yuan. Or worse, his IMO teammate Qinxuan Pan.
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^ I don’t buy it. Just read his papers and judge for yourself.
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, while talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Compare your comments with Peter Sarnak’s. They illustrate the above perfectly.Perhaps. I’ve nothing but respect for Sarnak and also some of Bhargava’s fellow Fields medalists. But I don’t get why Bhargava’s composition laws work deserves a Fields medal or even publication in a premier journal.
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His papers are prased due to their simplicity and beauty. One of my friends in the number theory field once said Bhargava’s papers can even be understood by smart undergrads with little training.
I also want to know why they all get slots at Annals.
^ I don’t buy it. Just read his papers and judge for yourself.
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, while talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Compare your comments with Peter Sarnak’s. They illustrate the above perfectly.Perhaps. I’ve nothing but respect for Sarnak and also some of Bhargava’s fellow Fields medalists. But I don’t get why Bhargava’s composition laws work deserves a Fields medal or even publication in a premier journal.
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Can you explain what you mean by beautiful? A lot of simple proofs are beautiful too. But they are not great in the sense that they don't open up new fields or contribute substantially to advancing the research.
Gauss did an incredible amount of work. Some of it became the foundation of modern mathematics and is developed to such an extent that it’s very difficult to do anything new. But there’s also a ton of obscure stuff that nobody has paid attention to all this time and it’s not hard to apply modern techniques developed over the last century to get some new results with hindsight. But for most people who don’t have a team of influential supporters, such an undertaking leads to a Monthly paper, not an Annals one. Gauss’s composition laws is in my humble opinion one such example.
