#2 - Antony Della Vecchia - Software and Mathematics

In this episode, I speak to Antony Della Vecchia. A mathematician who got into the world of programming.

We discuss the following topics:
- His work on analysing satellite imagery to asses infrastructure risks.
- Advances in satellite technology and their application in satellite image analysis
- The role of techniques such as machine learning and stereo imaging in analysing images.
- Open source libraries for stereo imaging
- Antony's journey with an academic background in mathematics into software engineering learning software development practices, e.g. Continuous Integration, Git, Frameworks.
- Learning JavaScript and Python.
- Implementing heat calculations using the finite volume method in JavaScript.
- The challenges of developing software for companies with no technical background.
- Moving from Canada to Scotland and finally to Berlin.
- Leaving the software world to explore ideas from his Master's in geometric group theory.
- Mathematics and the exploration of all true statements within it.
- The construction of meaning within mathematics and Kurt Gödel incompleteness theorem.
- Counter intuitive ideas in mathematics and physics.
- His exploration of new ways to define groups and his use of the geometrical shape torus as a way to reason about groups.
- Transformations between multi-dimensional spaces. The separation of the dimension of geometry and the space its embedded in.
- Maths doesn't care about the laws of the universe.
- Combinatorial geometry and Permutohedrons.
- Groups and symmetry.
- Blackholes and quantum effects at the event horizon.
- General relativity
- Large Hadron Collider
- The standard model of physics.
- How string theory got its name
- Gravitational waves
- Emergence and statistical mechanics
- Advice to his 20 year old self.
- Technologies and scientific discoveries his looks forward to.