May 23, 2021
1 min read
“Lex Fridman Podcast”
Episode #183 | Description: Po-Shen Loh
Description: Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician at CMU and coach of the USA International Math Olympiad team.
Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/
Po-Shen Loh: https://www.poshenloh.com/
[ OUTLINE: 0:00 | Introduction 1:43 | Planes and bridges 5:21 |Writing a computer game from scratch 7:46 | Programming competitions 11:21 | Math is hard 16:52 | Contact tracing that preserves privacy 54:09 | Math Olympiad 1:09:49 | Hard math problem 1:17:06 | Is math discovered or invented? 1:22:02| Intelligence 1:28:52 | Math education 1:33:03 | How to learn math 1:41:58 | Combinatorics 1:45:05 | Voting trees 1:55:29 | Stochastic coalescence 2:05:15 | P=NP 2:09:32 | Tolkien and WWII 2:11:52 | Advice for young people 2:13:57 | Meaning of life ]
