Marian Gaborik Accomplishments

Introduction

Marian has accomplished a lot in his young life, he has won several Nobel Prizes, he is the owner of several different college degrees (he earned his first one at age 10), and is highly regarded for his linguistic ability. Marian knows several different languages. He is a successful recording artist, his first album "Yo' Mama" went multi-platinum quicker than any other first time artist. Over the years he has gone from a harder, hip-hop type of music to a more clever combination-of-styles music, as exemplified by his second album, "Rollin' to Trencin". Tim and I can barely wait for his latest release, "What up LA?", coming out later this year. Marian is also a successful screenwriter, he has written screenplays for such hit films as "All the Pretty Horses", "Beautiful Girls", and "Back to the Future, Part II". Marian is also a successful politician, he ran for president of Slovakia in 1998 and won, however his opponent Michal Kovac took office becaue Marian did not meet the age requirement. Marian has also written several books, fiction and non-fiction, and has won two Pulitzer Prizes. Marian invented the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) in 1992 and therefore revolutionized home video entertainment. Marian has attended or taught at every single Ivy League school in the United States. "Might as well", he once said. Wayne Gretzky once stated, "Marian Gaborik is the best person I have ever met, he is also probably the best person to ever walk the Earth since Jesus Christ." Marian describes himself s himself as a "mathemagician." This section of SirMarian is laid out in the following categories: Inventions, Prizes, Languages, Musical Recordings, Film Credits, Books Published, and College Degrees Earned. Thanks for visiting!

Inventions

Marian Gaborik dabbles with inventing in his spare time, usually during the offseason. He is most noted for the five inventions listed below. Contrary to popular belief, Marian did in fact invent sliced bread and the wheel when he was only four years old. He later invented nuclear fission that was meltdown proof while studying at MIT. He also invented a very difficult game cube, which he named after one of his high school sweethearts, Joanna Rubik of The Czech Republic.
-sliced bread (1985)
-the wheel (1985)
-Rubik's Cube (1994)
-digital versatile disc (1996)
-safe nuclear fission (1999)

Prizes

Nobel Prizes - Marian is most prolific Nobel Prize winner in history. Of the six Nobel Prize categories, Marian has won in all but one, which is the Physiology or Medicine category. When asked about his lack of interest in this category, Marian simply stated "Physiology and Medicine are gay". After each prize is listed the reason the Nobel Community gave for awarding the prize.
-Peace (1995) "For his non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights during the separation of Czechoslovakia."
-Chemistry (1995) "For his elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)."
-Phsyics (1997) "For developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics."
-Economic Sciences (1999) "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy."
-Literature (1999) "Who through his magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity."

Pulitzer Prizes - Marian has won two Pulitzer Prizes in his career. The first one came in 1989 when Marian became the youngest recipient after his brave and insightful coverage of the Berlin Wall destruction. His original boradcast was seen in over 100 countries. The second prize came in 1999 when he published his autobiography, Me, Myself, and Marian, to resounding critical acclaim. This is the same book that won his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
-Journalism, criticism category (1989)
-Letters, Drama & Music, general non-fiction category (1999)

Fields' Medals - Marian has won this prestigous award for mathematics twice. Once in 1994 for his contribution to partial differential equations, to the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge-Amp�re equations. Marian was also awarded a Fields' Medal in 1998 for proving that for every n > 2 there are at most a finite number of coprime integers x, y, z with xn + yn = zn. Marian's bio appeared in Mathematics Magazine Today, in the winter 1999 issue. Here is an excerpt:

"Marian Gaborik has established a reputation in pure mathematics and theoretical physics, with influential ideas and deep insights. He has been influenced by the work of Richard Feynmann and Edward Witten. Gaborik is an expert in the so-called 'string theory' and in quantum field theory. He made his name with contributions to four problems of geometry. He was able to prove a conjecture of Witten and demonstrate the mathematical equivalence of two models of so-called quantum gravitation. The quantum theory of gravity is an intermediate step towards a complete unified theory. It harmonizes physical theories of the macrocosm (mass attraction) and the microcosm (forces between elementary particles). Another result of Gaborik relates to knot theory. Knots mean exactly the same thing for mathematicians as for everyone else, except that the two ends of the rope are always jointed together. A key question in knot theory is, which of the various knots are equivalent? Or in other words, which knots can be twisted and turned to produce another knot without the use of scissors? This question was raised at the beginning of the 20th century, but it is still unanswered. It is not even clear which knots can be undone, that is, converted to a simple loop. Mathematicians are looking for ways of classifying all knots. They would be assigned a number or function, with equivalent knots having the same number. Knots which are not equivalent must have different numbers. However, such a characterization of knots has not yet been achieved. Gaborik has found the best 'knot invariant' so far. Although knot theory is part of pure mathematics, there seem to be scientific applications. Knot structures occur in cosmology, statistical mechanics and genetics."
......"He has made truly fundamental discoveries cutting across many disciplines, pure and applied, and his publications are so numerous and varied as to defy easy classification. Keep in mind that there is in truth no central core theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, nor can there be. The sources of partial differential equations are so many - physical, probalistic, geometric etc. - that the subject is a confederation of diverse subareas, each studying different phenomena for different nonlinear partial differential equation by utterly different methods. Marian Gaborik is unique in his unbelievable ability to transcend these boundaries and to solve pressing problems throughout the field. "......"In 1994 Gaborik discovered an astonishing relationship between von Neumann algebras and geometric topology. As a result, he found a new polynomial invariant for knots and links in 3-space. His invariant had been missed completely by topologists, in spite of intense activity in closely related areas during the preceding 60 years, and it was a complete surprise. As time went on, it became clear that his discovery had to do in a bewildering variety of ways with widely separated areas of mathematics and physics. These included (in addition to knots and links) that part of statistical mechanics having to do with exactly solvable models, the very new area of quantum groups, and also Dynkin diagrams and the representation theory of simple Lie algebras. The central connecting link in all this mathematics was a tower of nested algebras which Gaborik had discovered some years earlier in the course of proving a theorem which is known as the 'Index Theorem'. "

Languages

Marian is fluent in 28 languages. He suprisingly does not know Spanish, at all. One time a Mexican fan simply said "Hola" at a book signing and Marian immediately replied "huh?, I do not know whatever language you are speaking, you shouldn't assume that I do anyways, I am European for cryin' out loud!" Marian also knows sign language and Braille. Marian also knows a made up language, Klingon, although he is only a moderate Star Trek fan and lists William Shattner as his least favorite actor of all time. "He sucks", Marian once said. Slovak is his native language. Here is the list of languages that Marian knows, in no particular order.

-English
-French
-Italian
-Icelandic
-Swedish
-Thai
-Hakka
-Slovenian
-Slovak
-Yiddish
-Chinese
-Japanese
-Swahili
-Portuguese
-Russian
-Greek
-Klingon
-Yi
-Manx
-Vietnamese
-Norwegian
-Estonian
-Flemish
-Finnish
-Danish
-Turkish
-Kurdish
-Ebonics

Musical Recordings

"Yo' Mama", Def Jam Records (1996)
"Rollin' to Trencin", Def Jam Records (1998)
"What up LA?", Grand Royal Records (2001)

Film Credits

Back to the Future, Part II (1989) - screenwriter
Beautiful Girls (1996) - screenwriter
For Love of the Game (1999) - screenwriter, set designer
All the Pretty Horses (2001) - screenwriter

Books Published

Marian has written six books. His most famous is his autobigraphy, "Me, Myself, and Marian", which won a Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has also written a novel and four textbooks which are widely used at universities. His most critically acclaimed textbook is "Mathematics Without Numbers", which is a philosophical approach to science. It was recently voted to the top ten list of best text books ever by US News and World Report. The following list shows the name of the book followed by the publishing company and the type of book

-"Vulnerability to Psychopathology", American Psychological Association 1997 (text)
-"Cellular and Molecular Immunology", WB Saunders Company 1997 (text)
-"Advanced Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies", International Thompson 1997 (text)
-"Mathematics Without Numbers", Oxford University Press 1998 (text)
-"Sorry, But I Think I Slept With Your Mom!", Penguin Books 1998 (fiction)
-"Me, Myself, and Marian", Chicago Tribune 1999 (non-fiction)

College Degrees Earned

Marian has attended every Ivy League school in the United States. Over the course of his college career he has obatined 11 bachelor's degrees, six master's degrees, nine doctorates and two professional degrees. Dr. Marian Gaborik gives guest lectures at Brown, Harvard, and Stanford universities in the offseason.

Bachelor's Degrees
B.A. - Art History, 1992, University of Trencin (Slovakia)
B.S.B. - Actuarial Science, 1993, University of Trencin (Slovakia)
B.S.Astro.P. - Astrophysics, 1994, Yale University
B.S.Chem. - Chemistry, 1994, Yale University
B.S.Stat.- Statistics, 1994, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
B.N.A. - Network Administration, 1994, Stanford University
B.M. - Music Performance , 1995 , University of Southern California (USC)
B.A. - Geography, 1995, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
B.A. - Film Studies, 1995, University of Southern California (USC)
B.A. - Japanese, 1995, Dartmouth College
B.A.E.M. - Aerospace Engineering, 1996, University of California-Berkeley
Master's Degrees
M.S. - Biostatistics, 1996, Harvard University
M.A. - Comparative Literature, 1996, Princeton University
M.A. - Epidemiology, 1996, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
M.A. - Greek, 1996, University of Athens (Greece)
M.A. - Italian, 1996, University of Rome (Italy)
M.A. - Latin, 1996, Dartmouth College
Doctorates
B.A.E,Ph.D. - Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, 1994, University of Iowa
Ph.D. - Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies, 1998 Harvard University
Ph.D. - Mathematics, 1998 Harvard University
Ph.D. Otol. - Otolaryngology, 1998, Cornell University
Ph.D. Surg. - Surgery, 1998, University of Pennsylvania
Ed.D. - Educational Policy and Administration, 1999, Columbia University
Ph.D. - Chemical Engineering, 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Psy.D. - Psychology, 2000, George Washington University
M.D. - Gynecology, 2000, Emory University
M.D. - Microbiology, 2000 California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech)
D.Phil. - Philosophy, 2001, Brown University
Professional Degrees
M.Aero.E - Aerospace Engineering, 1997, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
M.A. - English as a Second Language, 1986, University of Trencin (Slovakia)

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