In many recent works, analysis and number theory go beyond working side by side and team up in an interconnected back and forth interplay to become a powerful force. Here I describe two distinct meetings of the pair, which result in sharp counts for equilateral triangles in Euclidean space and statistics for how often a random polynomial has Galois group not isomorphic to the full symmetric group.

This video is part of the Webinar in Additive Combinatorics series, and this is
their YouTube channel.