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13:30ENHow AlphaGeometry Combines Logical Proof with Creative ConstructionAleph0Aleph0 explains how a symbolic geometry solver gets surprisingly far without AI, and how a language model supplies the auxiliary constructions that take it to Olympiad level.
7:17ENErik and Martin Demaine on the Mathematics of Curved-Crease SculptureErik Demaine, Martin Demaine · MITThe MIT father-and-son collaborators turn paper folding into art and research, embedding puzzles and mathematical fonts in their sculpture Solve Me.
11:19ENWhy Donald Knuth Thinks P = NP and Why It Might Not MatterGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanKnuth explains how an algorithm can provably exist without anyone being able to write it down, and why that shapes his view of P versus NP.
11:11ENFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryGuest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.







