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[Day Permalink] Friday, September 6, 2002

[Item Permalink] Fields medals explained -- Comment()
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard): "Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try." [Salon.com]

This is an easy-to-understand description of the work the recent recipients of the Fields medals have done in mathematics.