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The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Job of a Mathematician

Marcus de sotoy is a mathematician who also writes plays and he plays music. He preaches the virtues of math on television and elsewhere in the u k. At oxford, heis the simoni professor for the public understanding of science. You describe the job of a mathematician as discovering the ways of thinking smarter. I'm curious how successful you think mathematicians have been in that realm. Ha, ha, ha. Incredibly successful.

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