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Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

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203 points jandrewrogers | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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paulpauper ◴[26 Jul 24 19:09 UTC] No.41081353[source]▶
How do people even find the time to work on this stuff without being distracted by life, family, and everything else? I think this is why so many of these people are in Europe. America is too chaotic and full of obligations and distractions to do serious academic work.
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1. seanhunter ◴[27 Jul 24 06:08 UTC] No.41084754[source]▶
In the article one of the authors of the proof describes a key breakthrough as happening when he contracted covid and was thereby forced to spend 3 months in bed with nothing to do but think.

As an aside, Europeans have families, lives, distractions etc just like people in the US. Source: have lived in Europe for 30+ years. Have a family and lots of distractions. Have not proved any major mathematical theorems. (yet I suppose- there's still time)