Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician and author of Shape and How Not to Be Wrong. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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0:00 – Introduction
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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