I remember maybe 10+ years ago when Jacob Lurie won some major award for math research when he was in high school. I looked at it and could not understand anything. Even John H. Conway's letter praising Lurie's research acknowledged that he didn't understand it, either. For the curious masochists among us, check < http://www.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/ > to see what he's done recently. --Dan On Sep 17, 2014, at 1:02 PM, rcs@xmission.com wrote:
There are two mathematicians on the list.
Yitang Zhang proved that liminf (Prime - PreviousPrime) < 70 million, http://www.macfound.org/fellows/927/
and Jacob Lurie, http://www.macfound.org/fellows/921/ "a mathematician creating a conceptual foundation for derived algebraic geometry (DAG). At an oversimplified level, he is transforming algebraic geometry to derived algebraic geometry -- replacing the role of sets by topological spaces—making it applicable to other areas in new ways."
--- Quoting Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>: <clipped -- rich>
http://www.macfound.org/fellows/914/ Craig Gentry Computer Scientist Research Scientist, Cryptography Research Group IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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