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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How to Use Math in Everyday Life

A lot of the benefits I've gotten from mathematics in daily life are actually kind of ways of thinking more so than actually using math per se. Being able to come up with a very good diagram, for example, to crystallize genuinely what's going on can be really important and also help to communicate your insights to other people. One of my favorites is the London Underground map here in London which I use kind of every day because that's a topological map, not a geometric map.

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