Michael Hopkins: My best advice to young mathematicians (2022)

Watch Harvard maths professor and 2022 Abel lecturer Michael Hopkins give his best advice to young mathematicians. This talk was held at an event during the 2022 Abel Prize week, where multiple Abel Laureates as well as other high profile mathematicians spoke to young mathematicians.

[@urbanninjaknight]

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.

[@AdrienLegendre]

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

[@thetajay392]

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.

[@sougatasarkar2574]

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

[@leif1075]

You are a mathematician or you took a math test?

[@ronaldkumar3228]

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

[@drbonesshow1]

Rock stars are hard, but thanks to their groupies.

[@charlesrothauser1328]

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!

[@harshavr]

Great talk and gives good picture of a mathematical life

[@BhrantoPathik]

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😂

[@ramanathannv6426]

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.

[@leif1075]

What do you meanby meanest and too deep for tears?

[@joeremus9039]

Yep, you lost me brother. But food for thought.

[@caspermadlener4191]

"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.

[@mathemitnullplan]

this is so humble one could cry!

[@magiquemarker]

Love this! Nice one, Michael.

[@SreejithSathyan-pp9cw]

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

[@davidwilkie9551]

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".

[@francescos7361]

Thanks .

[@bhubankheti1729]

Thank you professor

[@lost8886]

That dividig up the check thing is a real problem.

[@BHU_866]

It was great.

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Thank you

[@leelaswell9955]

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

[@Danny-hj2qg]

LOL

[@ngocmynguyenbach1964]

You can both love math and dress well. I don't see any help in being a good mathematician by not caring about your appearance. And there is no mathematical proof for it either. It's just a stereotype that somehow sticks with mathematicians. We should appreciate more diverse kinds of personalities in math.

[@albadarqamar7380]

he is 64????

[@fernandobenitofernandezdel2622]

i was suprised too, he looks 50 at most

[@rithwikrajasekhara1524]

Relatable

[@ramanathannv6426]

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.

[@drbonesshow1]

Keep counting. Keep gerkin' the gherkin.

[@JournalingatYT]

He is hot

[@owade1814]

Pᵣₒmₒˢᵐ 💞

[@adityakrishna6406]

This guys tasty

[@shibhanlalpandita6975]

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