The Mathematician's Office - Numberphile
Cedric Villani is one of the world's most famous mathematicians. What does he keep in his office, and how important is his office to doing inspirational mathematics? More links & stuff in full...
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This is my office Brady, full of beautiful memories, full of actions, full of work and also full of some maths curiosities. See this, for instance, it looks like a plain doughnut. Let's see, it separates into two Möbius bands which are intertwined. This required quite some skill at the, you know, 3D printer. This is the famous Möbius band in wood, you know, just one side and just one boundary. This is Pythagoras, we know, we're not even sure that Pythagoras existed; for all that we know he may be a myth, but so important myth. I bought this in Athens, one of the places most important for us mathematicians; the place where, you know, mathematics was upgraded from a set of recipes to solve problem into a way to access some eternal truths. One of...
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This is my office Brady, full of beautiful memories, full of actions, full of work and also full of some maths curiosities. See this, for instance, it looks like a plain doughnut. Let's see, it separates into two Möbius bands which are intertwined. This required quite some skill at the, you know, 3D printer. This is the famous Möbius band in wood, you know, just one side and just one boundary. This is Pythagoras, we know, we're not even sure that Pythagoras existed; for all that we know he may be a myth, but so important myth. I bought this in Athens, one of the places most important for us mathematicians; the place where, you know, mathematics was upgraded from a set of recipes to solve problem into a way to access some eternal truths. One of...
