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Math as a way of thinking
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Oct 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ian Stewart, prolific author of popular books about math, discusses how math is the best way to think about the natural world. Often math developed for its own sake is later found useful for seemingly unrelated real-world problems. A silly little puzzle about islands and bridges leads eventually to a theory used for epidemics, transportation and kidney transplants. A space-filling curve, of interest to mathematicians mainly for being counterintuitive, has applications to efficient package delivery. The mathematical theories are often so bizarre that you wouldn't find them if you started with the real-world problem.
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Released:
Oct 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (60)
Everything You Know About Math is Wrong by The Art of Mathematics