University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford talks to Professor Daniel Spielman of Yale University about his career so far, including what it was like to win the 2010 Nevanlinna Prize. Learn more about Discrepancy Theory with the Maple Learn worksheet here.

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Recorded at the 2023 Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

The Nevalinna Prize (now renamed the Abacus Medal) is awarded by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) every 4 years for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences. Daniel received his prize in 2010 “for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms for graph-based codes and applications of graph theory to Numerical Computing.”