
The Impossible Number
Curious Cases
Is There a Hair in the Garden?
Mathematicians describe kind of moving around doing mathematics like you're in a very thick thicket, and you can't see where you are. And then there's a moment where you turn a corner and in front of you, you see this beautifully landscaped garden that is absolutely perfect. This new perspective shows you how all of these things are completely connected. You get this tool that is just spectacularly useful. Many, many hundreds of years after people try to solve these funny equations and invent this number i.
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