The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2011 to John Milnor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University, New York «for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.» - http://www.abelprisen.no/en...
Apr 22, 2011
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Bambaska bi alanin uzmani Tim Gowers'a populer sunum yaptirmislar: "I have just completed one of the more difficult assignments of my mathematical life: to give a popular presentation of the work of John Milnor immediately following the formal announcement that he was the winner of this year’s Abel Prize. Of course, in one way the task is very straightforward, since Milnor is a mathematical giant and has a large number of fascinating theorems to his name. However, these theorems are not in my field, the talk was supposed to last fifteen minutes, and my immediate audience included not necessarily mathematical journalists who were supposed to understand what I was saying. . . . Why did they ask somebody in a different field? . . . [One can] see my lack of expertise as an advantage in some ways, since it made it less likely that I would talk way over the heads of the non-mathematicians."
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"As I started to prepare the talk, I realized I had a problem. Although Milnor is famous for many results, the one for which he is best known is his construction of a seven-dimensional “exotic sphere”. . . .My problem with this result was that it felt false" - http://gowers.wordpress.com/2011...
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Gidip MathOverflow'da sormus, "ya simdi bu nasil oluyor da oluyor, bi anlativerin" diye: "I had an obvious impulse: ask a question on Mathoverflow. But I had to be very careful not to give the slightest clue about the Abel Prize". Surada sorusu: http://mathoverflow.net/questio...
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Yaptigi "populer duzey" sunumunun metni de surada: http://www.abelprisen.no/nedlast... Daha da populer duzey metinler Abel sitesinde var.
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Bu arada FF'te oldugum zamani Abel odullerinden seyedebildigimi fark ettim, bu ucuncu galiba. (Oyleymis: http://ff.im/gbi9i http://ff.im/i2Q0z)
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Milnor'la ödül vesilesiyle röportaj: http://www.ams.org/notices... "Egzotik 7-küre" adlı meşhur buluşunu buluşunun hikayesi de var. (Bu yıl ödül fiidi açmadıydım, pek alakam olmayan bi alana gitti - http://www.abelprize.no/c54147...)
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