Fun trivia: MIT alumni* have for the first time ever won…
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Fun trivia: MIT alumni* have for the first time ever won the Fields Medal
Until now, no one who has completed a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD from MIT has ever won a Fields. This year Hong Wang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Wang (PhD, 2019) and Yu Deng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Deng (BS, 2011) would be the first MIT-educated mathematician to earn the most prestigious award in the world of research mathematics.
To avoid any ambiguity, I will clarify that I am using the term alumnus/alumna\* as someone who has completed a Bachelors, Masters, PhD or any other similar degree conferred by a institute of higher of education upon completion of their education at the institute. The dictionary definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alumnus of the term includes people who may have attended an institute but never graduated with their degree. In such a case, I am unsure if anyone who has attended but never completed their degree coursework at MIT have won a Fields. Even if that happens to be the case, I still think the trivia I shared retains its noteworthy quality of being surprising to people given MIT's pedigree in mathematics.
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Until now, no one who has completed a Bachelors, Masters, or PhD from MIT has ever won a Fields. This year Hong Wang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Wang (PhD, 2019) and Yu Deng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Deng (BS, 2011) would be the first MIT-educated mathematician to earn the most prestigious award in the world of research mathematics.
To avoid any ambiguity, I will clarify that I am using the term alumnus/alumna\* as someone who has completed a Bachelors, Masters, PhD or any other similar degree conferred by a institute of higher of education upon completion of their education at the institute. The dictionary definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alumnus of the term includes people who may have attended an institute but never graduated with their degree. In such a case, I am unsure if anyone who has attended but never completed their degree coursework at MIT have won a Fields. Even if that happens to be the case, I still think the trivia I shared retains its noteworthy quality of being surprising to people given MIT's pedigree in mathematics.
#science
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