Fields Medallist Sir Timothy Gowers discusses his career - and the role of ‘begrudging admiration’ in mathematics. Sir Timothy Gowers webpage at Cambridge - https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/ Timothy Gowers blog - https://gowers.wordpress.com And his Twitter - https://twitter.com/wtgowers The Fields Medal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal Terminator 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day The unconditional basic sequence problem - https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9205204 Szemerédi's theorem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szemerédi%27s_theorem Tim Gowers International Math Olympiad results - https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=11101 The Fields Medal with Cédric Villani - Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3sgYKULp0 With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org Meyer Sound - https://meyersound.com/ PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS: https://www.numberphile.com/podcast-transcripts