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As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to say that Mandelbrot is the first person to rigorously study these kinds of systems. Made me die inside.


And the whole "mathematicians are only interested in problems they can solve" bit. Mathematicians have been interested in unsolved problems as long as maths has existed!

Edit: Okay, now I've watched the whole talk. Overall it's great.


Gödel has entered the chat


Cauchy rolling over in his grave.




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