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infamouscow • today at 3:14 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

You might be thinking of the Langlands program


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seanhunter • today at 3:56 PM

The Langlands program is about correspondences between analytic number theory and harmonic analysis. You could think about it as a unification of parts of mathematics that seem to have no reason to join up but turn out to have deep and non-obvious connections. It doesn't have anything to do with formalization.

Here's a really good and accessible intro to Langlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyytPboqvE

osculum • today at 3:24 PM

You give me too much credit. I was just being tongue-in-cheek about Principia Mathematica.