How to Solve the Unsolvable - Dr Sam Tickle
25th March 2023
We're often so used to tidy answers in mathematics that the agony of struggling on a problem for years, even centuries, seems totally ludicrous. Yet some of the most profound progress has been made in the (sometimes still elusive) effort to find an answer to those questions which simply refuse to fall to collective human effort. We'll talk about some of these problems, discuss how the journey to a failed solution can often lead to unexpected and crucial discoveries, and maybe, just maybe, cover how some of the most fiendish unsolved questions in mathematics could finally be cracked...