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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: 0.248s | 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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leephillips ◴[26 Jul 24 21:38 UTC] No.41082534[source]▶
Karl Schwarzschild found the first exact solutions to Einstein’s gravitational field equations (general theory of relativity) while serving in the trenches in WWI, firing artillery at the Russians.
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1. EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK ◴[27 Jul 24 11:11 UTC] No.41085779[source]▶
Interesting, Alexander Friedmann, another notable solver of Einstein equations, also fought in WWI, though on Russian side :)