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Jordan Ellenberg - Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

Sun, Jun 13, 2021 ·
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Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author of Shape and How Not to Be Wrong.

Timestamps

  • 1:01 - Mathematical thinking
  • 4:38 - Geometry
  • 9:15 - Symmetry
  • 19:46 - Math and science in the Soviet Union
  • 27:26 - Topology
  • 42:15 - Do we live in many more than 4 dimensions?
  • 46:45 - How many holes does a straw have
  • 56:11 - 3Blue1Brown
  • 1:01:57 - Will AI ever win a Fields Medal?
  • 1:10:22 - Fermat's last theorem
  • 1:27:41 - Reality cannot be explained simply
  • 1:33:25 - Prime numbers
  • 1:54:54 - John Conway's Game of Life
  • 2:06:46 - Group theory
  • 2:10:03 - Gauge theory
  • 2:18:05 - Grigori Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture
  • 2:28:17 - How to learn math
  • 2:35:26 - Advice for young people
  • 2:37:31 - Meaning of life

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