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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(08:51) – Planes and bridges

(12:28) – Writing a computer game from scratch

(14:54) – Programming competitions

(18:28) – Math is hard

(23:59) – Contact tracing that preserves privacy

(1:01:16) – Math Olympiad

(1:16:57) – Hard math problem

(1:24:14) – Is math discovered or invented?

(1:29:09) – Intelligence

(1:35:59) – Math education

(1:40:10) – How to learn math

(1:49:06) – Combinatorics

(1:52:13) – Voting trees

(2:02:36) – Stochastic coalescence

(2:12:23) – P=NP

(2:16:39) – Tolkien and WWII

(2:19:00) – Advice for young people

(2:21:05) – Meaning of life