2024 Abel prize: Michel Talagrand wins maths award for making sense of randomness | New Scientist

[Ruy de Queiroz]

“ Perhaps inspired by his own work, Talagrand says he sees his career as a random process. “It’s absolutely frightening if I look at my life and the important things which happened, they are determined by minor random influences, and there is no planning whatsoever,” he says.”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423192-mathematician-wins-2024-abel-prize-for-making-sense-of-randomness/