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How to think like a mathematician

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The Intermediate Value Theorem

There are certain things that are just absolute facts, right? Like there's going to be somewhere along the line from the North Pole to the equator, every possible temperature in between. The Intermediate Value Theorem tells you a way to mathematically fix a wobbly table - only slight caveat with this is that there's no guarantee that the table will actually be flat. You see why these things are important.

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