Aubrey de Grey on his Mathematics Research and Longevity | Hadwiger- Nelson Problem.

Published: 22 August 2022
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I got lucky to have Dr. de Grey talk to me about his mathematics research and his academic life in general.

In 2018, he proved that the chromatic number of a plane should be at least 5. The original paper can be found here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02385

You can contact Aubrey via this email:
[email protected]


(00:00) - who is Aubrey de Grey ?
(01:07) - Aubrey on his background
(02:27) - why Aubrey became an independent scientist ?
(03:40) - how did he get PhD without being a student ?
(06:35) - how to succeed in your PhD research ?
(09:26) - Aubrey’s thesis was a book on mitochondria
(11:50) - How to understand Aubrey’s longevity research ?
(12:33) - What is Hadwiger- Nelson problem ?
(13:57) - Aubrey on the history of H-N problem
(15:44) - Why did he choose to study the CNP problem ?
(18:32) - How to get an “outsider” view on a problem ?
(20:37) - Aubrey’s proof in detail
(30:09) - Aubrey worked on twin primes also…
(31:51) - Is computer a bad method of proof ?
(36:38) - How can we solve the CNP problem ?
(42:09) - Aubrey’s next project in mathematics ?
(45:55) - Aubrey’s idea for perfect cuboids !
(51:10) - How Aubrey finds collaborators
(53:30) - Aubrey gave 1000 interviews ???
(59:53) - A hard problem Aubrey solved as a student


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