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Episode: Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Description: Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discoveryPub date: 2026-03-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.But the story of how we discovered the shape of our solar system shows...