Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/07/05/fields-medal-video-maryna-viazovska/Article
- Profile of Maryna Viazovska, 2022 Fields Medal winner
- Awarded for proving optimal sphere packing in 8 and 24 dimensions (E8 and Leech lattice)
- Second woman ever to win the Fields Medal
Discussion
- One commenter notes E8 packing already used practically for denser vector embedding quantization
- Mostly light jokes about 8-dimensional cannonballs and academic titles
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