My favourite is Bar Natan's talk explaining why ancient Celts should have discovered Witten's construction of the Jones polynomial.
"Cosmic coincidences and several other stories", http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/Tennessee-1103/
My favourite is Bar Natan's talk explaining why ancient Celts should have discovered Witten's construction of the Jones polynomial.
"Cosmic coincidences and several other stories", http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/Tennessee-1103/