03:31
"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been"
00:50
40-60% of the day is unfocused
00:36
Pomodoros per week, consistency
00:25
Five years of pomodoro
00:20
Quantified PhD
01:11
PhD qualifying exam -- "Some fairly easy questions about topology"
00:39
"I sat in on some talks on general relativity"
00:38
"I started to think that maybe I could expand on some of Milner's ideas"
01:03
"I would read every math journal in the library's collection"
00:30
"I'd read many books on functional analysis"
02:34
"During the first semester, I took algebraic topology"
02:01
"Life was very simple in those days. It started and ended with math"
01:56
"I studied so long and hard I barely had time to think"
01:50
"I didn't need much in those days"
00:31
"Television held little allure for me"
00:57
Exploration in mathematics
01:30
Thinking on long drives
00:39
Top in the Tripos
00:22
Zach Abel
00:30
Arnav
00:31
"He never seems to be tired"
00:51
"Are you sleeping? Are you eating?"
00:30
"He finished all the undergraduate classes at UNC"
00:33
"Very sharp mind... especially in geometry"
00:30
Winding number
00:45
"I do a lot of my own work already"
00:14
"I don't think I ever had it in me to hide my enthusiasm"
01:33
"An excessive ability for focus"
00:34
Chinese IMO team
00:32
Hilbert panamas
00:16
"I like geometry"
00:35
Inductive geometry
00:08
"It's like caffeine to them"
00:15
Gold medal at the IMO
00:40
"I study mathematics using my heart"
01:10
"Basically the guy that wins all the awards"
00:37
Focus
00:29
Original thinker
00:40
"I was surprised by his speed"
01:00
Girls in the IMO
00:25
"Math is a beautiful creation in itself"
00:20
"By eighth grade there was nothing for him"
00:17
"I finally made it"
00:54
"We had to ask him to stop doing math"
00:23
"Math speaks for itself"
00:36
Twice Russian, once American
00:30
Learned more in 3 weeks than in 2 years
00:29
Commitment, diligence, and not giving up
00:11
"He just does math all day"
00:25
Zeb... it's cool.
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