[indifferentalex]

I know he has other sources of income but the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person, in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities, is rewarded for his efforts and can just go out and buy himself a brand new Ferrari with the prize money makes me smile.

[6502nerdface]

> the fact that this extremely smart and dedicated person [...] is rewarded for his efforts

Yeah, all he had to do was prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

[delightless]

And then wait 22 years.

[noir_lord]

The note to pay him should have been in the margins but there wasn't enough room.

[frutiger]

> "travellers"

I sincerely do not understand what was meant by this.

[wagglycocks]

A travel writer or vacation journalist. An Idiot Abroad, etc.

[indifferentalex]

I don't want to take anything away from anyone, but I did not mean writers/journalists, I meant people who travel the world on their parents' money and post photos of themselves on their voyages on instagram (labelling themselves as "travellers")

[kyzyl]

I dunno, the prize might be a little overblown. All-in it seems like a pretty marginal improvement if you ask me.

[_rpd]

I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the major achievements of modern mathematics.

[ibmthrowaway218]

"marginal improvement" was the key phrase

[kyzyl]

Indeed. The curvature of my humor might have been too subtle. Easily mistakable for a troll. Luckily I'm often too late to threads--as you can see--to be subject to getting mobbed with down votes ;-)

[lmm]

> in an age of professional lifestyle bloggers, "travellers" and other celebrities

Many of whom work equally hard at what they do, and bring a lot of joy to a lot of people.