1. A strange determinant

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mungal · 2022-04 · Strong recommendation

I’ll add to this to give an example of someone who I feel is doing a great job of satisfying this very request in the field of mathematics: Timothy Gowers. His yt channel is an excellent resource of theoretical understanding through numerical methods. Here’s my favorite series where he confirms/elucidates a “strange” theoretical fact with an explorative numerical style: [VIDEO] Simply superb content.

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missyougowers · 2026-05 · Recommendation

Unfortunately Gowers has taken Tao's lead on this one. Gowers has one of my favourite video series about how he approaches a problem he is unfamiliar with: [VIDEO] It is disheartening to see him jump into this GenAI puffery. I hope these GenAI labs are paying Tao handsomely for legitimizing their slop, but more likely he's feeling pressure from his University to promote and work with these labs. My guess is Gowers wants in on that action, or his University does. Either way, it makes me sad. If its self motivated... even sadder.

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jrhvmt · 2024-04 · Recommendation

But I do appreciate the comedy! Well while I have you, the message I feel I failed to adhere to in my comment was my interest in letting you, or others who follow their passion in math and programming, know that what you are doing is in fact “real” math! Keep it up! Your post made me click through a bunch of links in it. Thank you, but give me back that hour! ;P Better yet, I’ll trade you a different rabbit hole. Based on your post I think you’d really enjoy this “strange determinant” series from Timothy Gowers: [VIDEO] [LINK]

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