Paul Mecurio
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William from Abingdon, Maryland.
When you're working on a very difficult proof, how do you decide whether you're missing a key idea versus simply not pushing far enough with the tools you already have?
I'd love that.
Did you ever just say, I'm going to write it out cleaner and neater and then the answer will appear?
Do you ever just kind of clarify it a little bit?
It sounds like at some point you're not doing math, you're just seeing if the universe respects effort.
I'm trying so hard here.
I got a headache.
I'm supposed to take my wife to the ballet.
Yeah, yeah, good.
One more.
Hello, Dr. Tyson, Professor Tao.
Joel here from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Will a new math system have to be invented the more we explore space?
It seems as if there are a lot of places in the universe where our math simply just breaks down.
So we get time for one more question.
One more question.
This is a good one.