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Michael Freedman is the mathematician who solved the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture in 1981, winning the Fields Medal in 1986 — mathematics' highest prize. In this video, we break down his extraordinary journey from a Berkeley dropout to Princeton, his groundbreaking classification of four-dimensional manifolds, and his bold pivot to lead Microsoft's topological quantum computing lab, Station Q. A story of solitary genius, a proof that almost vanished, and a quantum gamble that could reshape computing.

#FieldsMedal #Topology #QuantumComputing

20 Comments

@migoroedu Creator 4 months ago Pinned

🧠 What blew your mind more — the proof that cracked the 4th dimension, or the quantum computer he's been building for 25+ years?

Drop your answer below. Also — the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture is STILL unsolved.

If you want to know why it's harder than the original, tell us in the comments and we'll cover it next. 👇

@randyevermore9323 4 months ago

The fact that only a handful of people understood his proof makes you wonder how all those awards were decided.

@iamurpal2309 4 months ago

The transition from four-dimensional manifolds to topological quantum computing feels almost poetic. It’s as if Freedman spent decades understanding the shape of abstract spaces, then realized those same ideas might one day power real machines. Few careers connect pure thought and future technology so directly.

@benmagrane3713 4 months ago

Goodness! What a family he grew up in.

@grehuy 4 months ago

These documentations are fantastic. Thank you!

@maestroarabiya7915 4 months ago

Extraordinaire thank you

@nishidabunsie-pratt1167 4 months ago

Excellent

@Khashayarissi-ob4yj 4 months ago

Beautiful.
Hoping for more videos.
Good luck.

@johnd9031 4 months ago

Interesting video.

@geometryjavascript8106 4 months ago

awesome as usual

@physicslover9227 4 months ago

Thank you so much for the video Sir 🙂🙏🙏🌹🌹✨✨...

@carleddison7479 4 months ago

In 1976 he was not 31 years old.

@ryoung1111 4 months ago

13:22
Anyone’s? Where are the humans who are doing the QC?

@inspo_expo 4 months ago

Technically Thurston was the one to solve most all of topology, but he wasnt one to do rigorous proofs

@inspo_expo 4 months ago

This channel must be from outside the US because I dont see the hype button

@enolastraight577 4 months ago

I wonder...
does any of this explain why quantum mechanics works in higher dimensions, but cannot explain 4d General Relativity?

@ericchionh9766 4 months ago (edited)

Grigori Perelman solve the other dimension not addressed by Freedman's work, won & rejected the Field's Medal....& a million bucks.

@dariogoricki4205 2 months ago

🤠

@enlongchiou 3 months ago

Riemann geometry n*(n-1)*(n^2-5n+18)/4! - n*(n-1)/2 = n!/(n-4)!*4!, 7-6=1 to 7-(6+1)=0 for PC have n-3=1 singular[hole] .n=5 have 15-10=5 have n-3=2 hole[torus], n=6 have 15=30-15 have 6-3=3... connected n torus chain except at n=3 (3-3)/0=3*(1/12) with 3-3=0 singularity.