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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
Lex Fridman Podcast
Fermars Last Theorem
Fermars last theorem deceptively simple as far as famous theorems are concerned you don't need to know anything beyond standard arithmetic addition and multiplication of natural numbers that's why a lot of people both specialists and amateurs try to prove it. The sepervissim result took 350 years to prove but in a sense mathematicians like drama we also have narratives we also have our myths here is a guy is the 16th century mathematician or 17th century mathematician who leaves a note on the margin and motivates others to find the proof then how many hearts were broken that they believed that they found the proof and then later it was realized that the proof was incorrect and so
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