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Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful? | Episode 2201 | Closer To Truth

2023-10-30 Education
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Does mathematics have two transcendent attributes: truth and beauty? What makes math true? What makes math beautiful? Are there different kinds of mathematical existence? How can math combine idealized perfection and explanatory simplicity? Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Featuring interviews with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Edward Witten, Max Tegmark, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Jim Holt. ▶ Early-release episodes of Season 22 available now at our website: https://bit.ly/3QwMzIA ▶ Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://closertotruth.com/register/ Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶ Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@devil_pls 2023-10-30

I can't believe how much new stuff you are still putting out after all these years. Thank you so much!!

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@chester-chickfunt900 2023-10-30

...Because math is one of the Rosetta Stones that allows us to understand the Information that is fundamental to this Universe. That's why.

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@SSJGodan 2023-10-30

Thank you for continuing to put these out - nothing helps the discourse more than open, free information accessible to all. Great video!

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@BlueSky-vb5ih 2023-10-31

An amazing episode. As an Engineer I love math and I get a lot of inspirations from these interviews. Thank you Robert

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@mediocrates3416 2023-10-31

Coherence is the ground of existence. The brain started as a comfort finder and is in us becoming a coherence detector. Keep at it, Bobby!

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@GeoffV-k1h 2023-11-01

'Truth is beauty. Beauty truth. That is all we know and all we need to know' Keats

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@quantumkath 2023-10-27

I'm brushing up on my knowledge of math.

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@patientson 2024-01-08

Breath is Truth. Beauty is acquired by a journey of moving closer to Truth. Amazing 👏

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@ethioutopia4389 2023-11-29

I want Robert to stay young and live longer So He keep digging more This is exciting. Thanks Robert!

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@drbonesshow1 2023-11-16

The truth and beauty of math that the average mind does not understand and therefore appreciate, but instead fears and subsequently hates. Just ask them. On a personal note as a grad student (long ago) the "toughest" math course I faced was Topics in Mathematical Physics. Though it really wasn't tough as it was strange (taught by one of the early proponents of string theory - in fact, to give a hint he was the first to ponder the 26th dimension).

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