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I spent a year making a 9-hour course on the proof of Fermats Last Theorem

I made a 9-hour video that tries to explain the mathematical skeleton of the proof of Fermats Last Theorem, starting from roughly high-school-level mathematics. Video: https://youtu.be/9f-hGSh8lF0?si=CIUhOnf89-M5w3W8 PDFs...

I heard that if you expect to meet X number of potential spouses who are willing to marry you, ...

... then from the 37/100 th person on, the optimal strategy is to pick the first person that is the "best" so far and end...

Applied vs Pure in the job market

Part time student, 75% completed pure mathematics bachelors, currently planning grad school for stats. Does Applied make a significant difference if I was to stop at...

Which famous unsolved math problems probably don't need completely new mathematics?

It seems that some famous unsolved problems (at least according to many mathematicians) might eventually be solved using existing mathematical tools, if someone finds the...