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==== Introduction by Marcus du Sautoy ==== | ==== Introduction by Marcus du Sautoy ==== | ||
<p>[00:35:23] <span style="color:#fa8a3b;">'''Marcus du Sautoy: '''</span>[00:35:23] Well, welcome to this special [[Simonyi lecture]] and my name Marcus du Sautoy. I'm a professor of mathematics here and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. And [[Charles Simonyi]] prepared a manifesto when he endowed this chair to guide the holder of the professorship in their mission. | <p>[00:35:23] <span style="color:#fa8a3b;">'''Marcus du Sautoy: '''</span>[00:35:23] Well, welcome to this special [[Simonyi lecture]] and my name is Marcus du Sautoy. I'm a professor of mathematics here [at Oxford University] and the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. And [[Charles Simonyi]] prepared a manifesto when he endowed this chair to guide the holder of the professorship in their mission. | ||
<p>[00:35:40] And I'd like to read one part of that manifesto to you. It said | <p>[00:35:40] And, I'd like to read one part of that manifesto to you. It said: | ||
<blockquote> Scientific speculation, when so labeled and when the concept of speculation and its place in the scientific method has been made clear to the audience can be very exciting. It is a very effective communication tool and it is by no means discouraged. </blockquote> | |||
And it is in the spirit of this part of my mission as the Simonyi professor that I would like to introduce today's Simonyi Special Lecture. | |||
I first met Eric Weinstein when we were both post-docs at the Hebrew University just over 20 years ago, and I had the feeling then that he was working on something big, but it wasn't until two years ago that Eric met me at a bar in New York. | |||
<p>[00:36:24] And we began, he began to explain the mathematics teaching working on in private for the last 20 years. As he took me through the equations he had been formulating, I began to see emerging before my eyes potential answers to many of the major problems in physics. It was an extremely exciting, daring proposal, and also mathematically so natural that it started to work it's magic on me. Over the last two years, I have had the privilege of being taken through the twists and turns of Eric's ideas., After our postdocs in Israel when I went the academic route getting my professorship here in Oxford, Eric went a more independent roots working in economics, government, and finance. | <p>[00:36:24] And we began, he began to explain the mathematics teaching working on in private for the last 20 years. As he took me through the equations he had been formulating, I began to see emerging before my eyes potential answers to many of the major problems in physics. It was an extremely exciting, daring proposal, and also mathematically so natural that it started to work it's magic on me. Over the last two years, I have had the privilege of being taken through the twists and turns of Eric's ideas., After our postdocs in Israel when I went the academic route getting my professorship here in Oxford, Eric went a more independent roots working in economics, government, and finance. | ||