Congratulations, Anna!

[fresh_42]

Dr. Anna Kiesenhofer, a mathematician at the EPFL researching nonlinear partial differential equations which arise in mathematical physics, won an Olympic gold medal in the Women's Individual Road Race.

(www.eurosport.com)

The other two are professionals!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Dr. Anna Kiesenhofer, a mathematician at the EPFL researching nonlinear partial differential equations which arise in mathematical physics, won an Olympic gold medal in the Women's Individual Road Race.

Wow! That must be a very complicated race!

 

[fresh_42]

Wow! That must be a very complicated race!

Men's race was. I suppose it was a similar course.

 

[Keith_McClary]

That must be a very complicated race!

It is an optimization problem.

 

[berkeman]

Anna Kiesenhofer told us that she never expected this and that it still hadn’t sunk in, but her press conference as the new Olympic champion truly came to life when she was asked what advice she’d give young riders starting out in the sport.


"Don’t trust authority too much," she stated, without much of a pause for thought.

The Austrian’s whole cycling career has been a sort of anti-establishment exercise, and it seems to fit with the original ethos of the Olympic Games that a gold medal is currently hanging from the neck of someone who is technically an amateur.


Kiesenhofer, whose principal pursuit is mathematics, has not been part of a cycling team since she left Lotto Soudal in 2017, and nor did she rely much on her national federation in advance of these Olympic Games.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/an...ritarian-mastermind-of-her-own-olympic-glory/

 

[fresh_42]

Should we expect a gold medal in rowing from our members who study in Cambridge or Oxford?