I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.
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I am still very fond of Australia, but my life is now in Los Angeles.
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It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
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I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.
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I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
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Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.
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If there is something that I should know how to do but don't, it bugs me. I feel like I have to sit down and work out exactly what the problem is.
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When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.
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It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics - for instance, in framing future directions of research - which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!
