OK, here’s the plan. We deploy elite special forces units to capture all the Fields Medalists and take them in black helicopters to a purpose-built underground fortress on Svalbard, and use secret CIA psy-op interrogation techniques to force them to reveal what they know
It's hard to exaggerate Gelfand's significance to 20th century mathematics; he was one of the titans. His work in pedagogy of mathematics was relatively modest, but still far more impressive than that of any other mathematician of similar stature. See: http://bit.ly/2qen58Q
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Thanks! I've heard of him, obviously, I just didn't work in a field he touched - though looking at Wikipedia, I might have encountered some of his work on representation theory or Lie algebras as an undergraduate.
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His contributions to representation theory, especially, were fundamental, diverse, and penetrating. (They overlapped somewhat with the tour de force achievements of Harish-Chandra.) Mackey and Langlands have since taught us how much we owe to these extraordinary pioneers.
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