Continued from the Facebook-related post of February 4, 2014:
In related news at the website of the
American Mathematical Society today:
Multimillion-Dollar Minds
“The Multimillion-Dollar Minds of 5 Mathematical Masters,”
by Kenneth Chang, ran in the New York Times on June 23, 2014.
The piece reports the award of $3 million “Breakthrough” prizes….
The prizes are financed by Yuri Milner, “a Russian who dropped out
of graduate studies in physics and became a successful investor in
Internet companies like Facebook,” and Mark Zuckerberg,
the founder of Facebook….
Related material: Requiem for a Cat (March 27, 2012).
“Break on through to the other side” — The Doors