This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.<p>> “I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”<p>Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.
The world needs more recognition of good mathematics and mathematicians. Really love the work quantum magazine does on covering mathematics. So many implications for the rest of the world.
I've found his work on inequalities, but the article mentions in passing that he did some good work on the teavellimg salesman problem and I can't seem to find anything about it. Does anyone know where I could find it?
My problem was always I took on too much so I had surprising breadth. I could find connections between many areas. I wish I had just focused on one or two things and gone very very deep. I would probably be a more fulfilled academic today if I was able to do that instead of an engineering manager.
Weird that neither his name (Michel Talagrand) nor his nationality (French) are mentioned in the title. His nationality is not even mentioned in the article. I'd be pissed if I were him, doing something that important, and not even getting your name in the title.
Yes, it’s the equivalent to the Nobel in that it’s yearly with a big monetary prize, but the most prestigious award in the field remains the Fields medal, which is only awarded every four years.