UK mathematician wins richest prize in academia

Martin Hairer, an Austrian-British researcher at Imperial College London, is the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough prize for mathematics. A paper so good, it must have been 'written by aliens'. A big step ahead in stochastic PDE.

A big step ahead in stochastic PDE?
A paper so good, it must have been ‘written by aliens’?
Congratulations Mr. Hairer.

Plus you are making Mr. Zuckenberg poorer, so you really deserve our appreciation.

Credits to Ian Sample, Science editor at The Guardian.

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