Lex Fridman

Yeah, so... So what's more real, physics or the mathematical platonic space?

Somehow it feels like we're approaching some deep truth from different directions.

And we just haven't traveled as far in the physics world as we have in the mathematical world.

Yeah, I wonder, like a thousand years from now, as physics progresses, what this same conversation would look like.

Do you think there's breakthroughs a thousand years from now on the mathematics side?

Because we've just discussed, and we'll return to...

a lot of turmoil a century ago.

Do you think there's more turmoil to be had?

To take a tangent on a tangent, since you mentioned philosophy, maybe potentially more about the questions and maybe mathematics is about the answers, I have to say you are a legend, right?

on Math Overflow, which is like Stack Overflow, but for math.

You're ranked number one all time on there with currently over 246,000 reputation points.

How do you approach answering difficult questions on there?

How do you find the questions that grab you and how do you go about answering them?

To give some examples of questions you've answered, what are some reasonable sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?

What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?

Is the analysis as taught in universities, in fact, the analysis of definable numbers, solutions to the continuum hypothesis?

Most unintuitive application of the axiom of choice.

Non-trivial theorems with trivial proofs.

Reductio ad absurdum or the contrapositive.

What is a chess piece mathematically?