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#209 – Luís and João Batalha: Fermat’s Library and the Art of Studying Papers

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The untold backstories of influential scientific papers

The discovery of quantum electrodynamics was sparked by thinking about electron orbits in relativity./nThere are often intriguing backstories behind famous scientific papers that readers are unaware of./nIan Goodfellow got the idea for a famous paper in a bar./nCedric Villani describes the journey from PhD student to Fields Medalist in his book./nRandom interactions and discussions with other researchers can lead to fundamental breakthroughs in scientific papers.

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