With Charles Kenney, a graduate student in combinatorics, we explore:
- what do intense hatred and food allergies have in common
- why
to be more like a fox than a hedgehog
- how to think about biases
- the linguistic Rorschach test
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Timestamps:
(0:00) introduction
(1:41) equalities and inequalities
(5:17) the nature of combinatorics
(18:11) the Bayes rule
(25:56) handling uncertainty and biases
(31:43) collaboration and author order
(36:37) academia vs. industry
(45:00) opportunity cost and habits
(51:38) problem solving strategies
Links:
- foxes and hedgehogs: https://www.historyaccess.com/new/isaiah-berlins-hedgehogs-and-foxes/
- Erdős vs Grothendieck: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/04/the_two_cultures_of_mathematic.html
- Audio url: https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/7fMK2uJeeVmqoWX5H85uMk
