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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In Tehran university, at the math club, where I was studying the pictures of Fields medalists were lining the walls.
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
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.
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
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.
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
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