An excellent article on the recent Fields Medal winner (the Nobel Prize for math) Terence Tao in Seed.
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For some reason, Alfred Nobel didn't endow a mathematics prize, but John Fields, secretary of the International Mathematical Union in 1931, did, and the Fields Medal is the math equivalent of the Nobel in that discipline. Four winners every four years get the medal, all under 40 years of age.
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The New York Times offers an article profiling Terence Tao, mostly focussing on his child prodigy background:
Dr. Tao has drawn attention and curiosity throughout his life for his prodigious abilities. By age 2, he had learned to read. At 9, he attended college math classes. At 20, he finished his…
But Conservapedia is going to fix that.
... apparently Conservapedia is unhappy that after Terence Tao got the Fields Medal four years ago he then endorsed Barack Obama for President, ... To deal with this apparent liberal bias and affirmative action in the Fields Medal, Conservapedia is starting…
A comprehensive article at The New Yorker on Perelman, Poincaré conjecture and the politics of math. Perelman, as you might have read, refused the Fields medal - the nobel prize like award for math. From the article,
Mikhail Gromov, the Russian geometer, said that he understood Perelman's logic: "…