120 – How to love a maths problem

A new?episode of?Anecdotally Speaking?is available!?To listen to?How to love a maths problem,?click here.

This week, Shawn and Mike are our hosts. Mike shares a story about problem-solving, which follows Fermat’s Last Theorem and the 358 years it took to solve it. The theorem holds a Guinness World Record for being the?longest-standing maths problem ever.

The story?makes several?meaningful business points, including:

• Problems are inevitable but solvable;
• Apply yourself to a problem, and even if you don’t solve it, your work will lead to something; and
• Effort, time, and creativity will bring a solution.

You can find the Wikipedia article Mike mentions?here.?