“He calls that the golden goose, bringing expertise from one area into another where it’s useful but not yet used… In 2018, they proved Griffith’s conjecture.”

The Quanta Podcast · Audio Edition: Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

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identified “golden goose” problems by applying number-theory techniques to Hodge theory, a field where those tools were underused

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