Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious #math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, and Fields committee cited her work in “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”.
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> 莫宗堅認為張益唐自由自在的個性不會適合學術圈的人才評價體制，還表示在承受磨難之後一鳴驚人也許真的就是張益唐的宿命("Maybe it was his destiny to endure and turn out to be great.")。
> 「幾十年前有一句話，好像說人的生命、追求、價值不是取決於你取得的東西，而是在你的追求中。德國劇作家萊辛說：『對真理的追求比對真理的佔有更為可貴。』愛因斯坦就喜歡引用他的話。即使我沒有成功，也不會覺得太遺憾。我在這個追求的過程中還是覺得很有價值的... 有人問我如果你出不來，是不是覺得一生就毀掉了？我覺得沒什麼，我活得好好的。」
> 陶哲軒不鼓勵前途還沒有着落的青年數學家效仿張益唐的這種一個人悶聲挑戰大難題的做法。
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵
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