The Mystery of 3-Manifolds - William Thurston

[@nur-fueru-tube6174]

In 2011 Bill was diagnosed with a melanoma, and in April he underwent surgery to remove a tumor, losing his right eye in the process. Despite being under arduous medical treatments, he threw himself back into mathematics, attending conferences, inspiring young people, and proving fundamental results in the theory of rational maps that harkened back to his work with Milnor in the 1970s. He died on August 21, 2012, surrounded by his family.

[@arurisuka]

I’m Japanese. the expectation became the big key to proof of the Poincare expectation the geometry of the Thurston. he is a terrible genius. I respected him heartily. I heard that I died on August 21 and was a shock very much.

[@SaveriusTianhui]

There is a wonderful playfulness to all of Thurston lectures.

[@Madrone6]

RIP William Thurston. We have lost a brilliant mind.

[@JTKostman]

We'll miss you, Professor - but I take solace in knowing you've likely been absorbed into an infinitely complex manifold. ...hopefully one with good coffee.

[@dr.mohamedaitnouh4501]

hhhh coffee is a good addiction for inspiration .... inspired great minds better than marijuana

[@Unidentifying]

what a genius and character. Thank you for your fantastic work and unique contributions.

[@Drigger95]

oh man :( he died just a year after this

[@BlueSoulTiger]

2010 Clay Research Conference was held in June 2010. Thurston died, sadly, in August 2012

[@otakucode]

Good comments! You are right that not using reason doesn't guarantee negative consequences. It just greatly reduces your likelihood of being able to avoid negative consequences intentionally. The brain has a lot of very predictable biases and flaws. And I don't advocate getting rid of emotion, it is very important. Widespread opposition to reason is dangerous, human history without reason is very unpleasant. I just don't want to see people suffer needlessly so I encourage reason.

[@PeeteyP]

Yeah, I love the guy- one minute he's tripping over his words, next he's describing a complex construct with perfect precision while wiggling around.

[@oker59]

@oker59 Perhaps another note to be made about human intelligence is that the brain does not think alone without the body!

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

Counted 3 women total in the audience LOL 😅 I'm seriously studying this for the fun of it... Not for some job... Not for some class... To expand my own mind. Hope to see more women doing the same in the future. Women can be wizards too ya know 😋 Mad respect for Thurston Could have been more organized lol, but he was an awesome person. I saw another vid of his and it really helped connect the dots in my head.

[@rajarshichatterjee3281]

RIP professor Thurston !!

[@yt249137b]

Genius mathematician who thinks with body and mind. It makes sense sine body and mind are mirror symmetrical manifold

[@양익서-g8j]

뭔가의 참거짓이 아니라 존재를 배웠네요.

[@oker59]

I've often thought that a major part of human intelligence is a general ability to mimic nature. Some life can mimic different species or aspects of nature. Some moths can blend into the bark of a tree. Some insects look like tree twigs and so on. Humans have a much more general ability to mimic nature and to communicate with each other this mimicry. Early on in Human evolution, humans liked to dress up like animals; they liked to put on deer antleres or bear or big cat skulls and so on ;

[@desmondwilson5902]

Some one get this man a live model!

[@danieldeelite]

Babe, wake up. William Thurston is running around the world and drinking french ☕

[@oker59]

@oker59 I bring this up because I can't help noticing William thurston here is constantly acting out the different geometric behaviors and structures!

[@jesuschristignorantracistf387]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT 3 MANIFOLDS ARE THIS MAN IS FUN TO WATCH BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT WOW

[@reginaldanderson7896]

Hausdorff Second countable Locally like Euclidean 3-space

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

@@reginaldanderson7896 Nice!

[@otakucode]

Anyone can be rational, the rules of reason are really simple, even children can use them very well. There's nothing 'elite' about being rational, it just takes some effort. Everyone gets to make their own choices, but they don't get to choose the consequences. Choose to stay away from reason, like by pretending rational people are stuck up (you certainly don't want to become that way), you just get the natural consequences. Lots of people make that choice, you get comment threads like this.

[@Suav58]

Do you know Gödel's numbering?

[@oker59]

@oker59 It should further be noted that it appears that Homo Erectus and pre-Sapiens did not have the facial expression ability of, well, Homo Sapiens. No other species has such range of facial expression.

[@eldenelmanto]

RIP Prof. Thurston ):

[@oker59]

the universe is one connected whole; i'm astonished at the mathematicians I've met who want to make mathematics some heavenly temple; it's the only thing they've ever learned; they make academia a religion!

[@Suav58]

I feel very disturbed by your comment. I've read some bits of his work. It is written with a deep love of other people and wish to make understanding of difficult problems as easy for others as humanly possible. Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWSTqXqVq6yqpcU he says it himself. If you are still here and have a bit of patience, please, try to listen to it.

[@otakucode]

The natural consequences are disease, suffering, etc. Choose not to vaccinate your kids, for instance, and you increase the chances they will die of a preventable disease. That's just one example. We didn't discover reason for fun, it's effective for survival and living well. Since I'm talking about activity on a social level, it only makes sense to talk about people who made different choices. And, yes, when someone makes a choice on reason rather than emotion they are more likely to be correct

[@naimulhaq9626]

His life was a hyperbolic 3-manifold knot.

[@Suav58]

Hyperbolic manifold is a complement of almost every knot. Railey started it with a complement of a figure of eight knot, then Thurston made a two tetrahedra construction out of an algebraic proof of Railey (geometrized it). Thurston generalized this approach. Hamilton and Perelman followed. As for his life, it was made more difficult by his love of sharing his knowledge with other people and his sensitivity; something ever more exotic in our changing world.

[@pukaman2000]

Do you have a proof for this?

[@olivierbegassat851]

33:26

[@oker59]

good

[@chuchulinek]

You think? I reckon they just love maths because it's interesting to them. How do they make it a religion, exactly? What do you mean?

[@xniquilador]

Booger rolling in the first row @ 1:42

[@ashishshukla9760]

Isn't he Mikhail Gromov?

[@oker59]

@pukaman2000 Proof of what? Be specific!

[@c0okiemon5ter]

WHAT ! no questions ??

[@nimrod2330]

yeah? okay. cheers ;)

[@chuchulinek]

Total garbage you are blabbering on about...focus on the content of the lecture instead of making silly observations about his bodily movements.

[@tomp2008]

who da fuk is Punkerray and Fibbanotchy?

[@lambdabaryon]

Seriously?

[@tomp2008]

just felt like being an obnoxious idiot.. i actually liked the vid, and am well aware who Fibonacci and Poincaré are.

[@JTKostman]

Okay, that's hilarious.

[@pukaman2000]

Interesting lecture. Not the most entertaining. I cannot help but wonder what would happen if life had been different for Bill and he wound up being homeless living on the streets without government support for advancement of science. Actually, what would half the people in that room be doing? I have met some homeless that talk of abstract subjects like Cerenkov radiation, carbon fiber nanotubes reaching into outerspace used for elevators, and other abstract subjects.

[@RalphDratman]

I hope when future archeologists study these comments their super-zetta-internet providers will deploy genius-level software to filter out obnoxious drivel. For that matter, why don't they just filter it now?

[@권순정-d6x]

William Thurston seems to me just a mere ineffective speaker.

[@RamismTamoid]

+권순정 I believe the speaker is exciting and animated. Entertaining and effective; can you make a presentation like this? Explain to me ' what is a manifold'?...

[@Markoul11]

42:50