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“is no algorithm." And so for example, you know, Jack Emmons, who was a legend in algorithm design, we'll talk more about him later, he thought a lot about the TSP in the 1960s. And in 1967, he…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“title Jack the Giant Killer because he was able to use his sharp wit to outsmart and slay the various giants that plagued the land. It's the same Jack, I think, as Jack and the Beanstalk, who planted…” (Joel David Hamkins)

“description of the followers of Heraclitus. I don't know whether any of you have ever read Jacques Derrida, who was perhaps a bit less popular now after his death than he was in the '60s through the…” (Richard Polt)

“toward the end of the 19th century. Faraday had anticipated a lot of the features of these equations, but they take a final, clear, pristine mathematical form in Maxwell, and” (David Albert)

“There's a wonderful book by Tim Maudlin, called Philosophy of Physics: called Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Mechanics, published by Princeton. There's a nice book by Jeff Barrett called The…” (David Albert)

“and what I'm referring to here are the famous discoveries of John Bell coming out of some arguments by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen regarding the question of locality. Very briefly, we have always…” (David Albert)

“you can have remarkably complex phenomena emerge. Like if you've ever seen John Conway's Game of Life, that would be a great example, okay? Where very simple rules can lead to, and they're sort of…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“And moreover, it was noticed by a mathematician named Poynting that there was a simple way, there was a simple formula whereby you” (David Albert)

“Maybe there isn't one." And then from sort of a similar place, actually, John Nash, believe it or not, the same Nash of the Nash equilibrium, if you're familiar with any game theory. So in the mid…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“from the 20th century. So, names like David Hilbert, Kurt Godel, John von Neumann, George Dantzig, Andrei Kolmogorov, Jack Emmons, Stephen Cook, Leonid Levin, Richard Karp, Don Knuth, all of those…” (Tim Roughgarden)

“in the sky and tricked that giant as well. But then again, there's also Jonathan Swift's character, Gulliver, who travels to distant lands and finds the Lilliputians, these tiny human beings to whom…” (Joel David Hamkins)

“doing is you're making a judgment, and a judgment is the connection basically of a subject and a predicate. So for Hume's issue, causality, what you're doing is you're connecting a cause and effect.…” (Lee Braver)

“The jury who is persuaded to pass a correct judgment, but, in fact, do not know that it's correct. So they might convict somebody” (Richard Polt)

“common definition that's bandied about and debated in today's philosophy. It's usually stated as justified true belief. There was the luckiest philosopher in history, Edmund Gettier, who actually…” (Richard Polt)