If you're going to put someone's face on a quantitative unit, it makes a whole lot of sense to honour a genius mathematician who changed the course of history. #TheNew50https://t.co/v6DnYRpZ8e
— The Fields Institute (@FieldsInstitute) March 26, 2021
The academic publishing system is broken. Symptom #3825968:
A colleague from another University asks you to send them the published version of their own paper, because they don't have access to it… and you find that neither do you
Christopher Zeeman tried for 7 years to prove that one cannot untie a knot on a 4-sphere. Then one day he decided to try to prove the opposite, and he succeeded in a few hours. pic.twitter.com/4t6iJ3zp9h
"Cauchy is mad and there is nothing that can be done about him, although, right now, he is the only one who knows how mathematics should be done." —Niels Abel