On: Fields Medals 2022

[davidktr]

France has an insane system of hyper-elite universities, the Grandes écoles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%A9cole). I have a friend who was in one, it's even crazier than it looks from the outside.

We have nothing comparable in Germany. If that's good or bad I don't know, but regarding super-elite competitions like the Fields-Medal I don't think there is another way.

[LeanderK → davidktr]

but it's not the same picture for physics of chemistry, where we get our fair share of nobel prizes. It's somehow different for math.