"I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new."
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Caucher Birkar
Caucher Birkar (born July 1978, in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, Iran, as Fereydon Derakhshani فریدون درخشانی) is an Iranian mathematician and a professor at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2018, "for his proof of boundedness of Fano varieties and contributions to the minimal model problem".
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