What is the nature of mathematical breakthroughs? What are common characteristics among diverse mathematical fields? What are specific signs of mathematical breakthroughs? How do breakthroughs create new mathematical fields or objects or discern deep relationships between diverse mathematical fields? How to distinguish mathematical breakthroughs from normal good math?
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What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part 2)
Karen Uhlenbeck
Sara Imari Walker on Physics, Emergence, and Life on Other Planets
Greg Epstein on Technology, Morality, and Non-Religion
David Papineau on Consciousness, Physics, & the Mind-Body Problem
Or Graur on the Big Bang and the Physics of Galaxies
Ned Block on Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness
