I am astounded. His advice is sound and encouraging, his delivery is humorous, and more than that, very humble. But he's an absolute giant in the field of algebraic topology and so are many of his students. As far as I know, he's the only person to have won the Veblen Prize twice. If you look at his Wikipedia page, any one of the problems he solved with collaborators is already enviable and incredible for one lifetime: Ravenel conjectures in chromatic homotopy theory, topological modular forms and its relation to physics, and the Kervaire invariant problem about surgery on manifolds.

Michael Hopkins is a humble person; this is a wonderful talk.

I learned a lot from Mike's work when I was a mathematician, and even developed something a little bit further. So many times I thought "wow that idea is crazy and crazily good!" This kind of spark in the darkness encouraged me to move forward.

I had a bad day... giving a bad exam and this vdo made me feel good...

Algebraic Topology, I remember being fascinated with cutting a mobius strip in half and cutting another one into thirds and the different results. Very cool!

Great talk and gives good picture of a mathematical life

That's a sign of mathematician, they always leave behind a problem for you to solve in the same way it happened in the end .. but I definitely hate algebraic topology, it's so abstract yet tremendously beautiful, and the reason for the difficulty is they never show you the rough work they do in the background to come to the abstract structure in the same way hopkins not showing his notes for the talks😂

Love this! Nice one, Michael.

Math is hard. Love the message. Worth listening to the end.

Thank you

I am amazed that his 64. HE SOUNDS AND LOOKS IN HIS FORTIES 😊😊😊

Thanks .

One more comment. Yes mathematicians are like poets. Poets enjoy and show their feelings at the meanest,as thought by many, should be able evoke thoughts too deep for tears.

It was great.

My High School Teacher Wife,(totally not mathematical), can talk about learning styles, oral and aural in particular for students who are all pictorial in some degree, and hands-on in others. So seeing and hearing pictorial measures of logarithmic numberness dominance sequences of quantization probability derived from potential oscillation of reciprocation-recirculation holography, is "perfectly natural".

That dividig up the check thing is a real problem.

Relatable

"When someone tells you you have to dress up for this event it directly goes into the spam filter of the brain of a mathematician" Not only did this crack me up, I actually relate. To both the spam filter and the clothing.

He wasn't dressed better than everyone. Take a look at 0:44 when the guy in an undershirt guzzles his beverage.

he is 64????

Keep counting. Keep gerkin' the gherkin.

He is hot

My dear mathematician it is not the attire, rather you and you the mathematician that matters. Please read the story the Indian scholar EASWARCHABDRA VIDYASAGAR. Once when stopped from a gathering for being dressed casually, he returned to the same venue on suit. When admitted in he asked the hosts to place his dress in the chair.

Pᵣₒmₒˢᵐ 💞

This guys tasty

It's better to bury monkey 🐒 mathematics & move on 😭