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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Lex Fridman Podcast
Algebra and Number Theory Are Part of the Same Idea
A lot or most of modern number theory is based upon this move to geometry and um there's also a lot of geometry and topology is also based upon yeah change. Going back and forth really brings these two completely different looking areas of mathematics together do you have particular examples where it allowed to prove some difficult things by jumping from one to the other? I thought for a second perhaps mapping like a continuous space to the discrete space like functions over a continuous space becauseYeah well you mean you can take if somebody gives you a space you can ask you can say well let's let's and this is also this is part of the same idea as talking about mapping from one discrete space to another so but
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