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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are You Teaching Einstein's Equation for General Relativity?

I think you could reach a lot of people. I wouldn't say everybody, but you could reach many more people than I reached now. Because if it was done right. Yeah, given the opportunity, requiring your book. Exactly. There you go. But yes, but he mean, actually, let's start. Two and two equals four is always foot forth. It's a kind of standard, simple fact. But, but everything is depends on context. If you take two cups of popcorn and add two cups of water to it, you get three cups of soggy popcorn, not four. So in that, I mean, so any bit of mathematics can be misapplied

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