Top thinker Caucher Birkar talks maths, migration—and how his older brother taught him calculus

Tens of thousands voted to choose the world’s top thinker from the 50 names we presented in our last issue. Here we speak to the winner, Cambridge mathematician Caucher Birkar

By Tom Clark

September 3, 2019

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Tom Clark is a Prospect contributing editor

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