Caucher Birkar

Kurdish mathematician · Iran · On the map · Academics · Born 1978 · age 48

Caucher Birkar is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish and British mathematician and a professor at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham.

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2019Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward2018“In Tehran university, at the math club, where I was studying the pictures of Fields medalists were lining the walls.”In their wordsQuanta Magazine, 2018Read the whole statement

“To go from the point that I didn’t imagine meeting these people to the point where someday I hold a medal myself - I just couldn’t imagine that this would come true.”In their wordsQuanta Magazine, 2018Read the whole statement

“I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.”In their wordsQuanta Magazine, 2018Read the whole statement