Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman from @UofT has won the 2026 Fields Medal.
Tsimerman extended the scope of o-minimal techniques within arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry and proved Griffiths' conjecture on the algebraicity of images of the period maps.
He is also a Simons Investigator in Mathematics.
Watch his full video and see all of the Fields Medal winners: https://t.co/34q7TMXd47
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Being born blind completely abolishes the risk of developing schizophrenia
One of the must utterly insane and fascinating examples of how little we know about mental illness
Over decades of research there hasn't been a single case of congenital blindness + schizophrenia