Timothy Gowers on the works of John Milnor

Sir William Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
This video is a clip from the Abel Prize Announcement 2011.

[@borja4015]

I honestly loved every talk by Timothy Gowers. He makes the topics accesible and interesting.

[@BlueSoulTiger]

A master expositor talking about a master expositor. Unbeatable!

[@akashsudhanshu5420]

Very thankful to you. I loved it.

[@kamilziemian995]

What an excellent, very clear talk.

[@SaveSoilSaveSoil]

"Milnor was only 19 when he proved this result" Wow!

[@BlueSoulTiger]

Call me picky, but someone at last makes it explicit that when talking of Manifolds e.g. a sphere or torus, that they are not talking about their interiors, but just about their surfaces (3:25). Too often this distinction is omitted in talks on such topics to general audiences. I reckon a "sphere" for a general audience is most often thought of as a ball (i.e. the interior at the very least).

[@kamilziemian995]

You probably right. Studying mathematics make to use so obvious that when you take about sphere you mean 2 dimensional manifold, that we often forget about what these means to normal person.

[@hibudy]

please improve the video quality