My topology professor at UCLA just won the Fields Medal!

[baseline bum]

http://www.ucla.edu/about/faculty/tao.html




For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically the Nobel Prize of mathematics, except it's only awarded every four years. It's so weird to actually know someone who wins an award this prestigous. I'll have to drop by his office and offer my congratulations.

I'm so happy for the guy. A lot of geniuses are huge a-holes, but this guy is as nice as they come. Also, most truly great geniuses can't interact with normal people, but Prof. Tao is like your average everyday nice guy, except he has the intellect of Einstein. Terry is a tremendous teacher, and his topology class was by far the best one I ever took at UCLA. Man, now I can go tell people I aced a class taught by a Fields Medalist.

[SpursWoman]

Wow! Very, very cool!

[MaNuMaNiAc]

wow! cool

[Marklar MM]

Stephen Colbert was mad he did not win the Fields Medal.

[SpursWoman]

Stephen Colbert was mad he did not win the Fields Medal.

I thought it was Sean Maguire?

*sigh*



"You and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going, 'The Field's Medal! The Field's Medal!' Why are you still so in' afraid of failure?"

"You mathematical !"

[Mr. Peabody]

I thought Grigory Perelman was supposed to win for his work on the Poincaré conjecture.

[ShoogarBear]

Perelman was the guy who refused it.

[Summers]

Stephen Colbert was mad he did not win the Fields Medal.

I saw that! ("I didn't know math was so sticky!")