Fields Medal
Subject in Mathematics
Fields Medal has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Alex KontorovichNumber theorist at Rutgers University working on the Riemann hypothesis and the Lean proof assistant
Kontorovich says mathematicians already questioned this summer whether the Fields Medal might no longer be awarded, which he hopes is not the case.
“Already this summer, we were thinking, is this the last time that a Fields Medal is awarded? I sure hope not”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 3:18:13
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity TheoryLex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.