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Allison Bishop - Computer Scientist, Writer, Comedian. President and Co-Founder, Proof Trading.

Growth & Failure

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The Transformative Power of Math at Princeton

"I had no conception of what Princeton math as a department was or what that meant," he says. "The fact that you could prove there is infinitely many of something as complicated as prime numbers was fascinating to me and the creativity that goes into it" The class taught him about using math, not as a vehicle to just calculate something, but as a way of reasoning about the world.

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