Caucher Birkar Quotes

Caucher Birkar is a UK-based Iranian Kurdish mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge.Birkar is an important contributor to modern birational geometry. In 2010 he received the Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for his contributions to algebraic geometry, and in 2016, the AMS Moore Prize for the article "Existence of minimal models for varieties of log general type", Journal of the AMS . He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model program". His favorite mathematician is Alexander Grothendieck.In his office at the University of Cambridge, Birkar has two photographs of the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. Grothendieck was a refugee — he fled Nazi Germany — and a Fields medalist, just like Birkar. Wikipedia

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“To go from the point that I didn’t imagine meeting these people to the point where someday I hold a medal myself — I just couldn’t imagine that this would come true.”

Caucher Birkar

"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

“I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.”

Caucher Birkar

"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

“In Tehran university, at the math club, where I was studying the pictures of Fields medalists were lining the walls. I looked at them and said to myself, ‘Will I ever meet one of these people?’ At that time in Iran, I couldn’t even know that I’d be able to go to the West.”

Caucher Birkar

"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

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