{"id":155593,"date":"2026-08-04T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155593"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:00:07","slug":"shenzhen-based-ai-mathematician-yurii-nesterov-wins-top-prize-in-applied-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155593","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen-based AI mathematician Yurii Nesterov wins top prize in applied maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Russian-born Belgian mathematician Yurii Nesterov reached retirement age in 2023, he found himself at the centre of a technological storm.<br \/>\nThe accelerated gradient algorithm he derived with pen and paper 40 years ago had become the engine driving the rapid advancement of modern artificial intelligence (AI).<br \/>\nFaced with the full explosion of the AI age, the academic \u2013 hailed as the \u201cmaster of international algorithm design\u201d \u2013 wanted to continue his groundbreaking work, saying: \u201cIt is crazy to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3362465\/shenzhen-based-ai-mathematician-yurii-nesterov-wins-top-prize-applied-maths?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Russian-born Belgian mathematician Yurii Nesterov reached retirement age in 2023, he found himself at the centre of a technological storm. The accelerated gradient&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}