Mathematician who tamed randomness wins Abel Prize

#MichelTalagrand laid mathematical groundwork that has allowed others to tackle problems involving random processes.

I heard he had this epiphany on a drunken walk

@davel As a lot of scientists! For example, Niels Bohr has a beer's pipeline in his home gifted him by Carlsberg!

“There was no such pipeline, but indeed Niels Bohr was entitled to free delivery of beer in the form of kegs and bottles/crates from 1932 to 1962.”