British maths genius wins £2.3m prize from Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation

British genius wins £2.3m prize for working out the maths involved in stirring a cup of tea with work so clever that ‘it must have been sent to him by aliens’ Martin Hairer, from Imperial College London, won Breakthrough prize for maths The Austrian-British researcher, 44, had been working on his stochastic analysis The field … Read more