The Importance of Playing With Time

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The greatest scientists are on record saying that when they were making their discoveries they felt like children so Isaac Newton said to myself i only appeared as a child playing on the seashore and every once in a while finding a prettier pebble or a prettier shell. Alexander Grotendjek who probably it was the greatest mathematician of the second half of the 20th century wrote that discovery is a privilege of a child, he says. The question is to how to preserve that as we grow up do you struggle with your own childhood innocence? You know what's the more honest way to look at things but i think we like to be to play with time i think we

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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:54) – Mathematics in the Soviet Union
(16:05) – Nature of reality
(27:23) – Scientific discoveries
(40:45) – Observing reality
(56:57) – Complex numbers
(1:05:42) – Imagination
(1:13:33) – Pythagoreanism
(1:21:28) – AI and love
(1:34:07) – Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
(1:54:32) – Beauty in mathematics
(1:59:02) – Eric Weinstein
(2:20:57) – Langlands Program
(2:27:36) – Edward Witten
(2:30:41) – String theory
(2:36:10) – Theory of everything
(2:45:03) – Mathematics in academia
(2:50:30) – How to think
(2:56:16) – Fermat’s Last Theorem
(3:11:07) – Eric Weinstein and Harvard
(3:18:32) – Antisemitism
(3:38:45) – Mortality
(3:46:42) – Love