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The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova

The Numberphile Podcast

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The Expansion

I knew nothing whatever about algebric geometry, because those topics were not taught at brinmore. But after i started working on my p g thesis with joe harris, it was a completely different type of experience for me. So that's enough the kind of person i am. If you challenge me with something, very likely i'll rise up to the challenge if i like it. I never really dreamt of proving any big theorem other than fermas last Hoovers' Last Theoretical Proposition. And when i went to graduate school nearwit, further down,. guess what? The area of my thesis was, how you break geometry, the one that i knew absolutely

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