Fields Medalists' open letter mocked: 'solving problems wasn't that important'
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-12
Mathematician Antoine Tilloy criticized the open letter signed by 25 Fields Medalists as "quite sad" and likely to age poorly, noting the irony that the best problem solvers of our generation now claim solving problems wasn't so important — what mattered was the friends made along the way.
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