“Martin Hairer’s masterwork is so fantastic, so fully baked and so far out of left field, one fellow mathematician declared, that the manuscript must have been downloaded into his brain by a more intelligent alien race.
Another compared the 180-page treatise to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy because it “created a whole world.” Few could recall another time in modern history when such a magnificent theory had emerged predominantly from the mind of a single person.”
With a little luck and a following wind, it really was “downloaded into his brain by a more intelligent alien race” – or leaked from the relevant secure compartment by a modern-day Colonel Corso!
Sounds interesting, though saying that “Once you discover something in maths, it applies to all eternity” sounds very much like an expression of religious faith…
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
“Martin Hairer’s masterwork is so fantastic, so fully baked and so far out of left field, one fellow mathematician declared, that the manuscript must have been downloaded into his brain by a more intelligent alien race.
Another compared the 180-page treatise to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy because it “created a whole world.” Few could recall another time in modern history when such a magnificent theory had emerged predominantly from the mind of a single person.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/hearing-music-in-noise-martin-hairer-wins-the-fields-medal-20140812/
WINNERS OF THE 2021 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZES IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCED
https://breakthroughprize.org/News/60
With a little luck and a following wind, it really was “downloaded into his brain by a more intelligent alien race” – or leaked from the relevant secure compartment by a modern-day Colonel Corso!
Sounds interesting, though saying that “Once you discover something in maths, it applies to all eternity” sounds very much like an expression of religious faith…