Today’s NZZ has a short interview with Maryna Viazovska who lives and works in Lausanne at EPFL. She seems like a very down to earth person. As for how she feels about becoming a person in the focus of the media, she said: “I’m a little introverted. Thus, it is making me a bit uncomfortable. I’ll get through it and will learn to live with the attention.”
> the arrangement of spheres that can take up the largest portion of a volume — in eight dimensions
Considering that our world is 3dimensional, the first instinctive question if you’re not a Math PhD is “what’s the point of this”. How valuable is such kind of research at all, are there notorious cases that are easy to ELI5 when a breakthrough in highly abstract and theoretical Math had positive consequences in developing real world tech that became useful and serves the average joe?
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Today’s NZZ has a short interview with Maryna Viazovska who lives and works in Lausanne at EPFL. She seems like a very down to earth person. As for how she feels about becoming a person in the focus of the media, she said: “I’m a little introverted. Thus, it is making me a bit uncomfortable. I’ll get through it and will learn to live with the attention.”
> the arrangement of spheres that can take up the largest portion of a volume — in eight dimensions
Considering that our world is 3dimensional, the first instinctive question if you’re not a Math PhD is “what’s the point of this”. How valuable is such kind of research at all, are there notorious cases that are easy to ELI5 when a breakthrough in highly abstract and theoretical Math had positive consequences in developing real world tech that became useful and serves the average joe?