http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/02/25/in-the-air/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/02/25/in-the-air/#comment-478 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:06:04 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=242#comment-478 Well, I am unaware of any specific marketplace for it, but if you wanted to put down money AGAINST my prediction, I am willing.

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/02/25/in-the-air/#comment-477 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:58:42 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=242#comment-477 Does anyone bet on the likely winners of Fields Medals? I read in a history of the Cambridge Mathematics Tripos exam that there was massive public betting on the likely top-marked students in the exam in England during the 19th century. There were even stories of malfeasance, with staff at Cambridge colleges allegedly bribed by punters to make the leading candidates sick by contaminating their college meals in the week of the final exam.

]]> http://www.arsmathematica.net/2006/02/25/in-the-air/#comment-476 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:16:17 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/?p=242#comment-476 I have no doubt about this. I was talking to Karthik the other day, and I used the fact that you predicted Tao would win as definitive proof.

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