Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

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Episode: Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

Pub date: 2026-03-20

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We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.

People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.

But the story of how we discovered the shape of our solar system shows how the…