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An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda

The Numberphile Podcast

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The Importance of Mathematics

I was too immature for mathematics but earlier I was precocious for other things but not for mathematics. If that book hadn't been on the shelf that day you were in the library do you think you'd be a mathematician? No I would have stayed a classist that's for sure I'm absolutely certain yeah so you went to Princeton and then like tell me about the sort of mathematician you've become. You can probably compare yourself with other ones what sort of mathematician are you my, he says. We're now we're now in today's episode which will wrap up at 9 p.m. local time (GMT-4:30) tomorrow is our final episode where we'll talk about

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