Wiley Post was one of a pioneering generation of barn storming pilots who attempted to outdo each other setting records in order to both compete with each other, but also set the
Wiley Post bought his first flying lessons with the money that came from a settlement from a mining accident where he lost his right eye, but he got a bunch of money from it and
Bill Wile : Hi.
Bill Wile : Thank you.
Bill Wile : One, one other point of order.
Bill Wile : So we have, we have time for some questions.
Bill Wile : Pretty close.
Andrew Wiles and his collaborator Richard Taylor took two years of heroic, secret effort to try to fix it.
Geeshie Wiley was the name of the performer.
Geeshie Wiley's real name, when this person, Elvie Thomas, was born, and many other details, including the fact
And Wiley, you could come to him and say, what if you did this with this ingredient?
Andrew Wiley was waiting for him at the hotel.
Andrew Wiley was finding it difficult to keep a straight face, and Elizabeth was known as the mad forkist for the rest of the trip.
Unfortunately Wiley Post died in a plane crash with Will Rogers who he was piloting around Alaska to go fishing and the record was never set. But the research that went into the making
It's like Wile E. Coyote being chased by Road Runner off the cliff.
He's like Wile E. Coyote kind of, and I think that's a very hopeful, optimistic way to be.
It's like Wile E. Coyote.
It's like the Wile E. Coyote running past the cliff.
I'm Bill Wile and it's with great pleasure that I welcome you to Green@ Google which
Consider Andrew Wiles 's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
And about Geeshie Wiley, he was able to find out her real name, Lilly Mae, Lilly Mae Wiley.
I would say Wiley's a big believer in a solid foundation and understanding your technique.
This is Wiley, actually, based in San Francisco.
James Curry works with Wiley, and they do video game programming stuff.
And so I got to ask Wile in a way that research mathematicians don't, usually.
Because any supervillain is like Wile E. Coyote.
Who doesn't sometimes feel like Wile E. Coyote?
So it's presented as women's wiles .
only-- from this woman in Geeshie Wiley, and that was it.
Eventually a chap called Sir Andrew Wiles rediscovers the proof.
So Homer is defying Andrew Wiles , he's defying Pierre de Fermat, because he has found a solution that seems to work.
So what he's seeing when he looks down is the Wile E. Coyote-type chasm with a rickety plank.
Bill Wile : We can't tell you.
And that effort included some insights that Andrew Wiles said were among the most important in his life.
for that, because Wiley I think saw those tweets not as racism, but as punching up, as punching up against the man,
I thought the quote you brought up from Andrew Wiles was particularly moving and interesting, and also relevant for a lot of the work that's done here too.
I was struck. Christopher Wiley was testifying about his work at Cambridge Analytica and Parliament, and he actually, in an aside, started
Dewey Dufresne, Wiley's dad, was a really amazing wine and spirits collector.
You know, Andrew Wiles proves something.
"Fermat's Last Theorem" got me to write about Andrew Wiles and other amazing mathematicians.
And I ended up publishing my first book with Wiley.
And then you went to go work at wd-50 with Wiley Dufresne, the madman of molecular gastronomy.
Like, Wiley, it seems like you had a little bit as well.
In contrast to the pressure vessel made for Wiley Post this device that would bring an earthly, a low altitude atmosphere up into high altitude to allow a human being to exist,
my some of my uh people are here from the publisher Wiley so I have to talk about the book but I do want to talk a
And she just kind of looks at me the way the Road Runner looks at Wile E Coyote as he's charging off a cliff.
For example, when the rapper Wiley was doing antisemitic tweets, I think Wiley was confused by the fact that he was being called out
was I actually got the chance to ask a question of Andrew Wiles , who was the mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem after this 350-year
It was the night after the day when I heard that Andrew Wiles had proof Fermat's Last Theorem.
Another hero, Alice Lakey and Harvey Washington Wiley.