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As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to
by tisker 6y ago
As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to say that Mandelbrot is the first person to rigorously study these kinds of systems. Made me die inside.
- hilbertseries 6y agoCauchy rolling over in his grave.
- mkl 6y agoAnd the whole "mathematicians are only interested in problems they can solve" bit. Mathematicians have been interested in unsolved problems as long as maths has existed! Edit: Okay, now I've watched the whole talk. Overall it's great.
- TheUndead96 6y agoGödel has entered the chat