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An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

The Numberphile Podcast

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The Accident of Going to Princeton to Study Mathematics

Going to Princeton was an accident and really was lucky what happened is that I don't know if you are aware of this but there's an American standardized test called GRE graduate records examination which you take. The building was completely locked on both all sides and furthermore I saw maybe a dozen other people who clearly came to the same test center and who are milling around and completely lost so it was closed  and then we started calling various phone numbers that we had America was not yet awake, he says.

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