I find it surprising they implied Overdeck is a superior mathematician to Tao. Winning the fields medal is a public award, based on his excellent papers and results.<p>Contrast this with some event in Tribeca the article does not even provide the name of.<p>Color me skeptical.
It's a dead link for me. The original from google search also seems to be dead. Someone seems to have pulled the article. And the google cache is also returning null.
I never seem to understand why gambling with other peoples money is celebrated. Its not like they were a startup trying to create and market a product and struck it rich.<p>If you had to stretch it, there is a thin veneer of celebrating math in the article. But lets face it, if there was no money involved, forbes would most certainly not be covering mathematicians discussing equations.