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An Interesting Lecture on the Importance of Mathematics by Timothy Gowers

I found this lecture by the mathematician Timothy Gowers (Prof. Gowers Wikipedia page here) very interesting and educational. I understood almost all of the math he introduced as well, which suggests to me he must be quite a good teacher.

He mentions the paper The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Nobel Prize-winner Eugene Wigner towards the end—it's worth a read.

Thanks to Math Blog for this.

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