A wonderfully encouraging interview with one of my favorite living mathematicians. Thanks so much for posting.

I was a top student in math when I had teacher who taught me to understand. Then I became the worst student in the class when a new teacher only taught us to memorise it. The irony is that the memorise teacher was more highly respected by the school because she got the students to do better in the exams with short term memorisation. She never taught us how to think, only how to remember steps and repeat. The problem with maths is that it is taught by people who are not mathematicians.

@yuinurahilyon5711

3 жыл бұрын

Ramen Grott True.

@richeeg3271

4 ай бұрын

As someone who enjoys math, but is studying engineering at the moment who's math teacher is like this, I absolutely hate this way of teaching math

@richeeg3271

4 ай бұрын

It actually makes me want to quit engineering and become a math teacher, who would actually teach math properly

@taurasbaltrimavicius3413

20 күн бұрын

Very true, but there are also situations where mathematicians not suited to be teachers. It relates to the more general problem where experts are not very good teachers. They can understand it but not able to properly explain. But then you could say they are not that good as being expert in a certain area means being able to explain it to others. It got me thinking now

@cleisonarmandomanriqueagui9176

5 күн бұрын

best comment

Measured, reflective , a quiet determination...beautiful qualities in a great mathematician, Andrew Wiles.

Such a lovely man! Not to mention one of the best scholars in any subject ever to live.

We need to take the fear and the silly competitions out of mathematics and turn it into an enjoyable activity. Yes, some people are born with a greater mathematical aptitude, but I’m convinced that anyone could do mathematics (even highly advanced mathematics) given the right environment and teaching method. There is incredible beauty in mathematics; a beauty that is often blocked by fear.

@CrimsonKnightmare1

4 жыл бұрын

False

@Frisbieinstein

7 ай бұрын

I think you don't know any ordinary people.

@pedrorodriges9733

7 ай бұрын

@@Frisbieinstein You can also choose the right words for them, and convey the beauty that opens up the practice of mathematics, another thing is that internally this person may still be against doing this.

Can't remember how many times I watched this video. It is very encouraging especially when you get to learn new subjects.

Fantastic analogy with music there.

What a lovely & inspirational man. His answers spark something inside my body and mind I'm not able to put into words rn

1:05-3:03 is quite an important message... it's not often to hear admittance from a professional that new math will always be difficult, and that a differentiator between them and a student is the ability to deal with the uncomfortable struggle

Why couldn’t I have had a math teacher who thought about math this way back when I was in school? I always found mathematical ideas fascinating, but with the exception of only one teacher that I can remember, all my other teachers seem determined to make the subject as boring as humanly possible. I suspect I’m not the only one who feels that way.

@jibran8410

5 жыл бұрын

If he did have an understanding of mathematics he would probably not be teaching high school math. Not saying all teachers are bad , but most teach in a way that forces the student to memorize

@tocaat2410

7 ай бұрын

I spent two years of secondary school at a 'public' (state run) high school, then went on to a 'private' (fee-paying) school for four years. There I had a mathematics teacher who really fired my interest and made me a devotee all things mathematical for the rest of my life. I'm now writing my own book. Not a school text book, but a treatment of a variety of mathematical topics, using a style of presentation based on my private school teacher's approach. I'm hoping that this may (just maybe) help youngsters at high school gain an interest in the subject. What I do remember is that at the earlier high school, one of the maths teachers, when teaching us about prime numbers, was asked the question, "is there a largest prime number?". The teacher seemed to think there was and said he'd try to look it up for us (but never did, of course). A couple of years later at the private school, when I'd become fired up in maths, I worked out my own proof that there is an infinity of primes. Later I discovered that it was the same as Euclid's proof!

@adityachettri8819

6 ай бұрын

a wonderful teacher and lover of mathematics, or any subject in general, will definitely not become a school teacher except in rare cases

He's so right about how mathematicians think of themselves. I found this in the most exhilarating way. Once casually visited the systems analysis lab corridor in Aalto University, Finland. There was this completely serene, beautiful environment, with sun shining from windows; someone playing piano live - in a quiet, tranquil way. People were so happy!

I would like to think that he was not humbling himself down when he said that all of us (he meant mathematicians) are experiencing the same struggle of the third grader but at a much bigger scale. That is sweet, and the man proved to be sweet as usual. But my critical faculties refuse to submit. I know some people who would not produce useful output in mathematics even if they persisted in this struggle for decades. I mean anything useful, let alone solving a centuries-old stubborn problem.

So proud that I could listen to one of his lectures

The question of whether mathematics is invented or discovered arrives very much from the minds of those concerned with physics and generally the application of mathematics. There is a sense in this Q&A that Andrew Wiles is trying to reel everyone in to considerations regarding pure mathematics. When he says that all his colleagues unanimously agree mathematics is discovered it feels as though the crowd is thinking about “a mathematical universe” when that is not what he intends even in the slightest.

Great questions!

I love his enthusiasm, and I love maths

Most important video of our age, in regards how our schools have ruined our perception of mathematics! They showed us the instruments in class, but never let us played with them and especially never gave us the beauty of music to experience with!

Two of the questioners seem almost hostile to mathematics, as though they want to accuse Dr. Wiles of something vaguely deceitful, or of cheating and secrets covered up. Reporters and politicians sometimes try to twist science and learning into a knot and make it appear bad and alien. But those who work in these areas can be sure that no politician can damage the reality of science and mathematics, whatever they may manage to do to individuals.

@ricardoabh3242

7 жыл бұрын

Ralph Dratman I am a layman from my pov I do understand your points. From my pov the problem with questions are more related to the questioner like spiking another languages, if you don't speak it it's hard to see the beauty:)

@prajnaprajna1923

7 жыл бұрын

To prove Fermat clearly, short,absolutely, easily I use the condition xyz are integer 1^2+2^2+3^2+4^2+....+n^2=Sn=n(n+1)(2n+1)/6=2n^3+3n^2+n/6 2n^3=6Sn - 3n^2 -n n^3=3Sn-3/2n^2-n/2. Fermat had said x^3+y^3=/z^3 I supose x^3+y^3=z^3 3Sx-3/2x^2-x/2+3Sy-3/2y^2-y/2 -3Sz+3/2z^2+z/2=0 x^2+y^2-z^2=2Sx+2Sy-2Sz-x/3-y/3+z/3. Sx+S(x-1)+Sy+S(y-1)-Sz-S(z-1)=x/3+y/3-z/3. Or 2S(x-1)+2S(y-1)- 2S(z-1)+x^2+y^2-z^2=x/3+y/3-z/3 So 1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(x-1)^2+1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(y-1)^2- [ 1^2+2^2+3^2+..+(z-1)^2]= - x^2/2- y^2/2 +z^2/2+x/6+y/6-z/6 Because x(x-1)(2x-1)/6+y(y-1)(2y-1)/6- z(z-1)(2z-1)/6=/ - x^2/2- y^2/2 +z^2/2+x/6+y/6-z/6 Contrary to the assumption conclusive x^3+y^3=/z^3. General, using 1^a+2^a+3^a+...n^a=Sn Prove x^n+y^n=/z^n

@VivekBoseShree

6 жыл бұрын

Bruh I see you in all educational videos

@whatno5090

3 жыл бұрын

I find that today, mathematics is strangely more devoid of envy, superficiality, and corruption than nearly any other subject or field of study in the real world; apart from a few outliers. The vast majority of people don't do mathematics for profit, or for notoriety, they do it for truth. People who do mathematics for exclusively superficial gain will very rarely be able to progress to a professional level.

I love this man

Hey sir, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also highly engaging thumbnails which will help your video to reach to a wider audience.

Yes

Quick maths!

He is cute! in the sense where you can see his love and interest in mathematics. you can feel his passion for it, trying to put those feelings into words. Wows~! To all my students: Tenacity in face of solving the equation. Hang in there children!

Inspiration

Fermat's last theorem is a fact. Fermat's did not claim that there are no whole solutions to equation. Fermat's claim that are no solutions to the equation in whole numbers.

U see Mr.Wiles u have an encounter not with encounter but with your brain I placed that in everybody

Good

sure sure

Ilovemaths

Mathematics is the most important subject.

@ROForeverMan

7 ай бұрын

Why ?

@hemant5318

7 ай бұрын

​@@ROForeverManwell, It allows us to control our environment with precision, combined with physics has an excellent predictive power something that cannot be said about other subjects, not to say they are not important.

@ROForeverMan

7 ай бұрын

@@hemant5318 But what good does it make that you have 4k tv when you are depressed ? Wouldnt philosophy that teaches you about what is important in life is more important ?

@Ruktiet

7 ай бұрын

If you think philosophy will help you from getting depressed, you’re completely delusional. Depression is almost always (barring some congenital causes, or causes due to malignancies, but these are rare) caused by nutritional deficiencies (including vitamin D from sun exposure), nutritional imbalances disturbing your metabolism (like an excessive intake of omega 6 ftty acids compared to omega 3 fatty acids), microbiome-related conditions such as SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) intoxicating your small bowel with biogenic amines, D-lactate, lipopolysaccharides and many more, or these dysbiotic intestinal condition upregulating inflammatory cytokines able to cause systemic inflammation such as neuroinflammation, nervous system dysregulation due to a problematic circadian rhythm due to excessive screen time when your bodu shouldn’t be exposed to (blue) light, chronic anxiety due to trauma or lack of exposure, or environmental toxins such as mycotoxins due to living in water-damaged buildings, or heavy metals from water supply in rural areas with contaminated water, and also social isolation; whether or not you consider yourself an introvert, humans require a sense of identity and community, and plenty of enjoyable interaction with their peers. And math is nothing more than the collection of logical inferences we can draw from it’s premises, mostly in the hope of reducing the computational burden that arise from calculations which apply to real life problems. So in a way, many braches of math collectively provide frameworks as solid as we humans can possibly come up with given the way our brain and thus reasoning works, in order to control our environment. That is not to say that there aren’t any branches of math which are utterly useless by any measure other than how they can be aesthetically pleasing to the person who reaserches it.

@ROForeverMan

7 ай бұрын

@@Ruktiet Who lied to you ?

Hello Professor Jay Daigle, I am looking forward to meeting you online 4/26/2024 about my presentation of Collatz Sequence. Taha M. Muhammad/ USA Kurd Iraq Owner of Collatz, Euler, and Fermat's both last Theories

A dear, sweet, mathematician. God’s gift to mankind,

定理が発表されるまでに測度論的確率論の入門とルベーグ積分の基礎の学習をしようと考えてます。そこまで勉強したら少しゆっくり読書したいです。

@mayankmanivyas9329

3 ай бұрын

Use translate

Richard Feynman said, "most of the time you feel stupid" because you can't get the answer.

専攻は経済学から数学に変更しようと考えてます。

I hope you honor see my notes, would you please communicate with me because I solved both Fermat's Last Theorems! Please it will be nice of you to take care of my solutions of Fermat. Euler, and Collatz Sequence.

Wow! This is a story of self mastery - not of genius.

@vitykant8231

5 жыл бұрын

both :D

@whatno5090

3 жыл бұрын

genius = self-mastery

To answer that man's retort, no, it is not a necessary illusion to believe that mathematics is discovered. Mathematics is discovered, the discovery is not an illusion, and we know this because but we are aware of the fact that that the mathematical facts we study are grounded in abstract objects. These abstract objects and their properties and relationships are understood to exist a priori -- that is, they exist whether we are aware of them or not: for example, 2+2 is 4 whether we recognized it or not. By recognizing it, and by proving it, we haven't invented the relationship 2+2=4 -- we've merely discovered it. We discovered a relationship between two a priori objects. By this token, you can understand that mathematicians don't invent mathematical facts: they find them.

Can you think of something so much it makes you almost sick?

@robertpalmer8371

6 жыл бұрын

yes. research can do that to you. hopefully you make a few successes to keep going, but its mostly a very painful and stressful experience. not for the faint of heart.

@reimannx33

5 жыл бұрын

Cantor, Godel, Boltzman to name a few.

@whatno5090

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertpalmer8371 I would say *mathematics* doesn't quite fit that particular description, at least for me. It can make you sick but I wouldn't say that it's in a painful way, if that makes any sense.

@whatno5090

3 жыл бұрын

@@reimannx33 Cantor's pain was because he was ridiculed and strongly opposed by Kronecker, who was mostly well-respected in his time. It was not from the mathematics itself. Godel's pain was because towards the end of his life he developed serious paranoia and actually starved himself to death out of fear of being poisoned. Boltzmann's pain was because nobody believed in his view of the world, even though he was able to produce very applicable equations from it. For the vast majority of professional mathematicians today, this sort of opposition doesn't really exist. In particular Wiles doesn't face this sort of opposition. It definitely is very challenging to do what Wiles' did, and the stress is quite powerful at some times if you believe that a serious issue in your life-work manuscript of 7 years is unfixable. The "sickness" of thinking hard about mathematics though usually is more like a "sickness" like running, in the sense that you feel good about feeling sick since it means you're really concentrated and able to focus on the problem.

USE THE CODE TO SOLVE FERMAT Always be correct (x^1/a+y^1/a)^na=(z^1/a+x^1//a+y^1/a - z^1/a)^na. Call d=x^1/a+y^1/a - z^1/a =>(x^1/a+y^1/a)^na=(z^1/a+d)^na. They are composed of two groups One group contains x^n,y^n and z^n and the other contains all irrational numbers. z^n=x^n+y^n. Impossible!

There's a prize, you work for the money that's advertised, so then you can move on to the next one and also have enough to eat and afford rent. No? 1 million doesn't buy a home.

Only the greats say things like this. I heard Richard Feynman say something very similar. I suspect it's just not true. Things always look doable for everybody to those who are able to do those things. It looks like a sort of winners bias.

The comments must be fun

Godel expresses wff's in odd numbers every number is prime relative to its own base n = n(n/n)=n(1_n) (primes do not include division by other numbers) Goldbach's Conjecture "every even number is the sum of two primes" n + n = 2n Godel's expression does not include even numbers in his defintion of wff's - they are therefore "undecidable" (o + e) = o is always odd so is undecidable because of the existence of even numbers (e+e) = e (o and e are sets of numbers). Proof of Fermat"s Theorem for Village Idiots c = a + b c^n = [a^n + b^n] + f(a,b,n) (Binomial Expansion) c^n = a^n + b^n iff f(a,b,n) = 0 f(a,b,n) 0 c^n a^n + b^n QED works also for n = 2. Someone go tell the physicists (Especially Einstein and Pauli) and also for multinomials (tell the cosmetologists..) (Hint: Wiles had to use modular functions, which are only defined on the positive half of the complex plane.) there are no negative numbers: -c= a-b, b>a iff b-c=a, a >0, a-a = 0, a=a if there are no negative numbers, there are no square roots of negative numbers. The ""complex" plane is affine to the real plane (1^2 1, sqr(1^2) = 1 2qr(1) (Russsell's Paradox; a number can't both multiply and not multiply itself). more on this on the physicsdiscussionforum (dot org)

shame the person coughing blanks out what he says at times.

Look to GOD for guidence

Every time they say encouraging shit like "Everyone is good at math. People being bad at math is just an illusion" I get pissed off and offended. It's just as obnoxious as saying, "Just work harder, and you can improve your height." BULL. SHIT.

@111Tob111

6 жыл бұрын

Well, the statement "Everyone is good at math" is pretty much bullshit. I would rather say everyone sucks at math until he/she starts practicing. The bigger problem is the way people feel and think about math. If your education ha led someone to the conclusion that he sucks at math he will pretty much avoid it and as a result suck at it.

@lumiere4460

6 жыл бұрын

They are justified in hating math. Many math nerds who try to convince them otherwise probably avoid and HATE sports for the same reason.

@111Tob111

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, you're right. That's unfortunately how psychologie works. Seems like we all have to try things we hate so we have a chance to change our opinion about it.

@KhanhTran-pf1qm

6 жыл бұрын

Nightingale Orphi Are you generalizing that All math nerd hate sports? lol

@KhanhTran-pf1qm

6 жыл бұрын

Nightingale Orphi Andrew Wiles is saying that once you get rid of the things hold you back, you can advance, like a sport,

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Jesus Christ!!!!

Professor Wiles, who wisely departed from the toxic realm that claimed the best two mathematicians of the British Empire (Turing and Ramanujan), practices MATHEMATICS, not that french-originated abomination "maths"

I am Taha M. Muhammad Solved Collatz Sequence in 3 Ways Euler Perfect Box Fermat’s Last and General Solutions On January 23, 2024 I put all above at KZread & Twitter

@sbnwnc

3 ай бұрын

Congradulations! Are you a professor?

gimpy dosser

@Frisbieinstein

7 ай бұрын

You're just jealous.

@jsrjsr

3 ай бұрын

Nah he is a great man. Also there are gimpy dossers that go to the gym regularly and stay gimpy dossers in their very core.

Cai gi ma the gioi bi thi Vn lam.đây là phương trình luôn luôn đúng;(x^1/a+y^1/a)^an=[z^1/a+(x^1/a+y^1/a) - z^1/a]^an. Dat d=(x^1/a+y^1/a - z^1/a ) =>(x^1/a+y^1/a)^an=(z^1/a+d)^an=>x^n+anx^(n - 1//a).y^1/a+....+any^1/a. x^(n - 1/a)+y^n=z^n+an.z^(n - 1/a)d+....+an.d^(na - 1).z^1/a+d^an=0 Xong roi Neu chua hieu thi coi them => na.z^n= {[z¹/a / (x¹/a+y¹/a - z¹/a)]}.{ nax^(na - 1)/a.y¹/a+….+nax¹/a.y^(na - 1)/a - [+….+naz¹/a.d^(na -  1)+d^na] } Sai khi (So nguyen bang vo ty) khi (a) la so nguyen va z^1/a la vo ty. Nếu z^n=x^n+ý^n khi don gian van dung nhung sai vay z^n=/x^n+y^n Om mani padme hum.

@julioezequiel8935

4 жыл бұрын

It's hard to understand what you have describe here. But I guess it's have something with the Fermat-Wiles theorem

There is no such word as maths. The shortening of the word mathematics is math.

@SafeTrucking

7 ай бұрын

Prove it!

@mcshadowj

6 ай бұрын

There is no such English as British English. Not a thing!

@parentheses7777

4 ай бұрын

Though I omit the "s" in speech, I do see how it is strange that one may say they do mathematics but shorten it to math without the plural. Would "maths" not be the more correct shortening? Well, that seems like an issue of culture and as such it should not be limited by one's opinion.