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Fields Medallist Sir Timothy Gowers discusses his career - and the role of 'begrudging admiration' in mathematics.

[Sir Timothy Gowers webpage](https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/)

[Timothy Gowers blog](https://gowers.wordpress.com)

[And his Twitter](https://twitter.com/wtgowers)

[The Fields Medal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal)

[Terminator 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day)

[The unconditional basic sequence problem](https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9205204)