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The Pursuit of Mathematics
I asked my little girl to write a poem for the book, because I was like, right, what do you think a poem is? And she went away and she came back with a courtrain. Do you remember what it is? Oh, my goodness. It's in the book. But she actually wrote something about pie because it was for Mummy. For Mummy's book and Mummy's a mathematician. Something like endless numbers, they could go until you die, all across the universe that is polite. The whole idea about nursery rhymes. Yes. And then going on to folk tales and different patterns that are in folk tales. And these are very natural to us as
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