The Storm is Coming - with Hugo Duminil-Copin

About this episode

Hugo Duminil-Copin discusses his experience of winning the Fields Medal and his work in mathematics.

The ups and downs of winning the coveted Fields Medal, with 2022 winner Hugo Duminil-Copin. See our main video from this interview - https://youtu.be/JWtD0O-zSWY Hugo is based at the University of Geneva and IHES - https://www.ihes.fr/~duminil/ More Numberphile interviews and videos with Fields Medallists - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIDErJihuPX2S7E-0rnkaeu With thanks to Nils Berglund for visualisations of percolation - https://www.youtube.com/c/NilsBerglund Fields Medal 2022 - https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022 Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-street And the Ben Delo Foundation - https://delo.org/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile Here are our Patrons - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons Numberphile is created by Brady Haran

People in this episode

Host: Brady Haran

Guest: Hugo Duminil-Copin

Topics covered

• Fields Medal
• mathematics
• percolation
• interview
• science

Keywords

• Fields Medal
• Hugo Duminil-Copin
• mathematics
• percolation
• interview

Sponsors

Jane Street, Ben Delo Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Geneva, IHES, Numberphile

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