Timothy Gowers: The Importance of Mathematics (Part 1)

The Importance of Mathematics by Timothy Gowers at The Millennium Meeting (2000).

Watch the complete sequence of videos by using the playlist I have specially created for that: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3641A12A6ADDB4B1

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• mathematics
• number
• theory
• combinatorics
• analysis
• algebra
• arithmetics

[PeelTower]

If I wasn't already studying mathematics and didn't know how interesting it was, I'd never do it as a result of listening to this crashing bore. The question is moronic anyway. Any tradesman knows why mathematics is important.

[correodeadolfo]

I think everyone knows how important Math is, but still most people find this lecture interesting and worth watching. Maybe you are missing something others aren't. Thanks for commenting.

[honeybbqgrundle]

And now that the comment I sarcastically replied to is gone, nobody will know what the hell I'm talking about.

[correodeadolfo]

I didn't remove any comment. It probably violated YouTube rules. What was it?

[mg0876]

thats my dad!

[politicalair]

I don't know about you but I only find false humility, like from George W. Bush, irritating. True humility coming from this man I have a ton of patience for. It's part of the whole absent minded genius thing. Some girls find it rather cute.

[INMATE2468]

"Math is in some sense the language of logical ideas" - Albert Einstein

[idster7]

there is a disproportionate amount of people with their hands on their faces in the audience of mathematicians.

[ja524309]

@dedanoe Are we really have this conversation right now, are we really. Jesus Christ.

[taitusmaximus87]

@PeelTower so, which tradesman uses the resolution of singularities from algebraic geometry in there work?Presumably everyone knows that...

[tezukablackjack]

terence tao at 2:56

[dedanoe]

@hwnzero i have a better proposal instead of drawing the circle with x and y linear axis draw it with only x circular axis and place +1 left, -1 right, infinity up and zero down. the product of every two opposite numbers against the center of the circle is same as product of any two others. instead of tripping the universe step-by-step walk it in radian-by-radian. infinity in my math is in a way finite. it is merely analogy for pi/2.

[dedanoe]

@hwnzero 1^0 = ? well 1 = infinity times zero then zero is 1 over infinity and then 1^0 is 1^(1 over infinity) which is taking infinite root of USA One = MKD Eden = Math 1. infinite root of 1 is

cos(2 k pi / infinity) + i sin(2 k pi/infinity) with k form 0, 1, 2 to infinity

it is set of all the Edens (1_1, 1_2, 1_3,...)

not only that 1 is infinity x 0 but 1 is also infinity^2 x 0^2 where infinity^2 = infinity/zero = large unit of impossible and 0^2 = 0/infinity = small unit of impossible

[dedanoe]

1^0 is not 1. would you like proof for it? 1^0 is 1^(1/infinity) is infinite number of infinite roots of 1 is the set of every 1... certainly in case 1 is not the only 1.