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

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Eigenvectors in Algebra

I think it's important to distinguish mathematics as a game versus mathematics as a tool. I'm someone who has always really cared about applications. Quite often we start being fascinated in mathematics because we like it, the game kind of element of it. And then there's another view of math where you're saying, no, my goal is to change something in the world. and then math is just the way that I try to accomplish that.

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