[FRIAM] Yet another Abel prize interview

[jon zingale]

This time  Hillel Furstenberg
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IdfSRYawE&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize>  ,
whose topological proof of the  /
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furstenberg%27s_proof_of_the_infinitude_of_primes>
infinitude of primes/ [1] is one of my all-time favorites. Here he discusses
interesting work that connects number theory (diophantine approximation) to
stationary processes and recurrence results in ergodic theory ( almost
periodic functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_periodic_function> 
). Eventually, he discusses connections there with current work on
ergodicity in fractal geometry. JohnK, if you are lurking, does your work on
the spectra of boolean flows have connections to any of this work?
[1] For those inclined, the proof is wonderfully short and summarized well
by the Wikipedia page.



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