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What is it that French people
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If you take polls,
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the top three answers might be:
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love, wine and whining.
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(Laughter)
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Maybe.
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But let me suggest a fourth one:
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mathematics.
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Did you know that Paris
has more mathematicians
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than any other city in the world?
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And the most streets
with mathematician's names, too.
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And if you look at the statistics
of the Fields Medal,
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often called the Nobel Prize
for mathematics,
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and always awarded to mathematicians
under the age of 40,
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you will find that France has more
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than any other country.
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What is it that we find so sexy in math?
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After all, it seems to be
dull and abstract,
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just numbers and computations
and rules to apply.
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Mathematics may be abstract,
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but it's not dull
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and it's not about computing.
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It is about reasoning
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and proving our core activity.
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It is about imagination,
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the talent which we most praise.
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It is about finding the truth.
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There's nothing like the feeling
which invades you
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when after months of hard thinking,
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you finally understand the right
reasoning to solve your problem.
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Natasha Murashkina
The following subtitle has a typo. It should be “many” instead of “man.”
15:08 - 15:11
And gratitude to the man collaborators
who made this possible.
Retired user
7:46 should be: so I definitely want to interview him IN priority. (dot is also missing)
Brian Greene
This transcript was updated on 8/17/16.
At 15:08, the phrase "man collaborators" was changed to "many collaborators."