John Milnor on the Development of Topology

He wrote a review: Topology Through the Centuries: Low Dimensional Manifolds

Talk given in 2014:

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I heard about this from Daniel Tubenhauer's talk:

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Then I listened to this brilliant talk by William Thurston on the future of three dimensional topology and (at 19:36) the future of software like Curved Spaces:

At 24:42 he goes on to relate the idea of bit-rot in software to the language used in mathematics. I think these ideas could be formalised and that would tell us something about algorithmic solubility (see the theorem of A. A. Markov Jr. mentioned in Milnor's talk 52:51)

See Daniel Tubbenhauer on Algebraic Geometry and Edward Frenkel on The Langlands Program ...

See also Time Travel in Programming Land

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