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How To Bake Pi, Mathematically (And Deliciously)

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What Is Abstraction?

Abstraction is often thought of as difficult, the hardest kind of math. But some people are much more drawn to abstract mathematics than numbers and equations. Many art students do not care about numbers or equations. They did not get on well with school math; it doesn't seem interesting to them at all. And so I think declaring that one of them is harder than the other is a mistake.

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