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A Math Problem Survived for 65 Years — Then Someone Looked in the Wrong Field

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Dennis Sullivan helped solve a problem that had resisted mathematicians for 65 years—not by staying inside one field, but by bringing in ideas from somewhere else entirely. This is the story of a mathematician whose greatest weapon was refusing to respect the boundaries between subjects.

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20 Comments

@migoroedu Creator 4 weeks ago Pinned

What’s more important in mathematics: knowing the right tools—or knowing when to steal tools from the “wrong” field?

Sullivan built a career on the second. What do you think? 👇

@iamurpal2309 4 weeks ago

65 years couldn't break the problem. Sullivan didn't play by the rules everyone else was following. That's the kind of mathematical genius I find fascinating.

@reinhardscherer2860 4 weeks ago

I can barely grasp the depth of thought, but it smells like the most beautiful music my eyes will never be able to see....

@arekkrolak6320 4 weeks ago

Cool but turn off radio before recording because music drowns the words

@arjyamansaha3082 4 weeks ago

What is more superior ? Asking a very hard question or solving a very hard question?

@DJF1947 3 weeks ago

Chemical engineering was obviously the catalyst for everything else. The so-called Brusselator reaction-diffusion model requres all of the other fields.

@sarge420 3 weeks ago

These brains are above my pay grade. Thank goodness we have them. -Ret USAF

@EK-gr9gd 8 days ago

Those graphics look like fractals.
Mandelbrodt's.

@mauijttewaal 9 days ago

Fascinating

@Francisco-r9u3o 4 weeks ago

Fantástico el programa.

@MirzaAli-x5j 3 weeks ago

Fantastic can you do for chemist medical researchers economist and great manager

@MirzaAli-r5c 3 weeks ago

Egyptian chemist started femto chemistry

@harrycebex6264 3 weeks ago

Background music ruins informative videos.👎

@b33blebrox 4 weeks ago

Modern math has a problem - it is too big to fit single human brain, thats why there are hundreds of branches and mathematician's specializations. We really need an AGI to sort things out

@drwizard2875 4 weeks ago

I tried madelbrot pattern of x^x, it was more beautiful.

@rosomak8244 4 weeks ago

Yeah. This is the stuff none cares about outside his in-group.

@tomhardyofmaths2594 4 weeks ago

At 15:38 switching the narrator's voice is not optimal.

@GAMarine137 3 weeks ago

Hmm, didn't see this guy serving in Vietnam or at least doing something for the war effort. You had farmers and plumbers getting drafted and sitting in the front-lines but others sat out to study shapes?

@thomasolson2823 3 weeks ago

Mega videos that would take weeks done every two to three days. Probably someone that doesn't speak English and is copying the works of other people. That being said, everyone is stealing content from someone. There is no science video on Youtube that belongs to the content creator.