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Episode: June Huh第二講: 一位大學讀六年才畢業的迷妄青年如何在數學找到他的人生目標?
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June Huh enrolled in a class taught by the famed Japanese mathematician Hironaka, who won the Fields Medal in 1970. Hironaka was charismatic, and Huh quickly fell under his sway. For the first time, Huh witnessed research mathematics unfolding in real time. Hironaka’s lectures weren’t polished as in other undergraduate courses, where the answers already worked out. Huh loved the suspense of it, the act of trying to do something no one really knew how to do. Huh discovered that this kind of mathematics could give him what poetry could not: the ability to search for beauty outsi...