Fermat's Last Theorem

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The pure the hardest manifestation of a puzzle that we're all solving in different other disciplines but this is the the hardest puzzle. A lot of arguments they make are not rigorous from mathematical perspective it is kind of an intuitive argument and you either prove it or you don't. Andrew Wiles took that seemed to at least from my sort of romantic perspective seem to be very lonely yes it's a lonely profession. I would love to hear your opinion to the degree that you know it um of the proof of Fermat's last theorem by Andrew Wiles which seems to have this element perhaps for years, he says.

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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