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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Power of Shortcuts

The idea be if you want to find the minimum of a function, in order to do that, you could just take a derivative. Newton and Leibniz came up with this tool to understand a world in flux,. Yet this thing is able to pick out that moment where things are optimal. It's almost like a bit of magic.

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