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19 years ago a kurdish refugee living on food stamps in Nottingham turned up in the university and asked, in broken english, to see a maths professor.
Last month I went to see him - after he won the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize. 1/n
thetimes.co.uk/article/cauche…
Last month I went to see him - after he won the maths equivalent of the Nobel Prize. 1/n
thetimes.co.uk/article/cauche…
He almost convinced me his route to the Fields Medal was mundane 
But normally mathematicians don't have their education interrupted by the Iran-Iraq war.
When he arrived at university he thought how astonishing it would be to meet a Fields medalist.
He succeeded in becoming one in a large part because of the Nottingham professor he met.
I still don't understand his maths
