120 – How to love a maths problem

Shawn and Mike host this week’s episode, and Mike shares a story about optimism and problem-solving. The story 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: https://buff.ly/3sskvIE You can find the Wikipedia article Mike mentions here: https://buff.ly/3iMVZOX If you want to get in touch with the team and perhaps tell us how you’ve used a story, you can contact us via people@anecdote.com!