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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by tisker on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:46PM (#25539286)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by mkl on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:19AM (#25542313)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by TheUndead96 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @05:13AM (#25542495)
Gödel has entered the chat
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Re:Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020? by hilbertseries on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:13PM (#25539861)
Cauchy rolling over in his grave.
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