Comment by frakt0x90
5 days ago
I bet she could do it. Maybe not in a sentence, but at least the Kakeya problem is easy to understand, so maybe these other things would be explainable by an expert. I would like to see them try at least!
fwiw, I feel the same way about biology "Lysing action of the (1,2)b-carotene receptive encephalopathy pathway" type shit.
There's been some new videos uploaded with her and the rest of the prize winners (and the winners of other prizes, like the Gauss Medal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPyjR3qmTA But after watching them I still don't think they're great for understanding (I'm still mostly confused) but the human-interest aspects of the videos are something.
> Lysing action of the (1,2)b-carotene receptive encephalopathy pathway
High school biology is enough to get a vague idea of this though.
Right. With a college degree, I understand most of these words. I don’t have a clue about the impact of the research or how it fits into the corpus, but I understand the gist of the article title.
Despite my degree being in engineering, which involved 4 semesters of calculus, and 3 other semesters of math, (7 total) I have absolutely no fucking clue what’s going on in the Fields Medal description above. It’s only barely more intelligible than if it had been written in Chinese (which I truly cannot read at all).
I genuinely don’t understand it at all. Even words that I think I recognize like “harmonic” or “geometric” are useless to me because the actual terms are “harmonic analysis” and “geometric measure theory” and I have 0% clue what those are.
I don’t have to google any of the words in the example biology title.
Did your 7 semesters of calculus include any courses that a math major would take?
For example, a single upper-division undergrad level course on probability will expose you to measure theory.
Similarly, harmonic analysis is something that you can take as a reasonably good senior in mathematics.
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