Full show at https://youtube.com/live/XnNsH2g0gXA — Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for the Breakthrough Prize ceremony April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, bringing together high-profile leaders in the entertainment, business, tech, and science communities for a celebration of scientific achievement during a gala awards show unlike any other. Awarded annually, the Breakthrough Prize shines a spotlight on scientists and their groundbreaking work, to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation. The star-studded affair was hosted by James Corden and included presenters Jessica Chastain, Glenn Close, Bradley Cooper, Robert Downey Jr., Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys, Regina King, Brie Larson, Rob Lowe, Edward Norton, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Margot Robbie, Zoe Saldaña, Olivia Wilde, Venus Williams, and Michelle Yeoh. Adam Levine accompanied by David Foster, and singer-songwriter-producer Charlie Puth performed during the ceremony. Notable guests included Vin Diesel, Magnus Carlsen, Edgar Ramirez, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry, Joel Madden, David Blaine, Jeff and Justine Koons, Wendi Murdoch, Maria Sharapova, Eileen Gu and Ms. Yan Gu, Lizzo, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen, and Eric Schmidt.
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here to present the Breakthrough prize
in mathematics please welcome two
Academy Award winners it’s Brie Larson
and Michelle
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yo imagine for a moment a moment an
instant in time calculus is a way to
capture such a moment in the language of
mathematics it’s essential to almost
every field of science and technology
and Central to our understanding of
motion change and growth growing up our
next laurate was a young mathematical
superhero speeding through the landscape
of advanced math he grew fascinated by
differential geometry which uses the
tools of calculus to explore smooth
surfaces and spaces asking how
properties like curvature similar to the
Sur tension in a liquid change as you
move across them these objects can be
familiar like a sphere a helix or an
everything bagel or they can be bizarre
higher dimensional surfaces called
manifolds Simon Brendle has gone on to
make a series of major discoveries about
spheres and manifolds in four dimensions
and Beyond so tonight let’s honor his
path through this AB ract field and
let’s celebrate his
moment how do we Define the world around
us north south east west up down beyond
the world that we
perceive are there higher truths a world
of four or more dimensions
Einstein showed us that we are really
living in A four-dimensional Spacetime
manifold humans cannot visualize such
worlds but a few have the gift and the
grit to explore them Simon brindle is
one he cannot see these higher
dimensional
manifolds but with the symbolic language
of
mathematics he can conjure the
features the smoothness of their
slopes how their curvature changes as
you move across
them exploring these manifolds has
brought downto Earth advances from
computer Graphics to machine learning
systems and GPS but it has also brought
us closer to seeing the manifold truths
beyond our senses
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Simon brindle the
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manifold for transformative
contributions to differential geometry
the 2024 breakthrough prize in
mathematics goes to Simon brindle
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to me mathematics has been intriguing at
times frustrating and often
surprising many ideas that seem
promising at first ultimately do not
lead to
progress sometimes unexpected
connections emerge between seemingly
unrelated problems leading to new
insights on rare occasions this may give
rise to a novel perspective on a problem
that makes its solution simple and
beautiful that is the ideal we stri for
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Brie has such a soothing voice! It's such a pleasure to look at her and to hear her speak. She speaks with so much warmth and love, she could read pretty much anything to me and make it fun and entertaining. And congratulations of course to all the amzingly smart scientists, who did things I do not understand anything about.