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Ep209: The English Magician - Ramsey Dukes

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The Importance of Negative I in Mathematics

Maths is very often a question of saying, let's find something that's impossible. And then marvellous, you find that actually it has relevance to the physical world in a mysterious way. I found that mathematical thinking and magical thinking had certain things in common, they were equally abstract and mysterious to other people. But they worked for me. mathematics is a lot about thought experiments. It was as if I'd read up all the books in the science and done it very scientifically. I got good results, much better than I was getting.

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