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An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

The Numberphile Podcast

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I'll Write Them Out Long Hand

A lot of your research is done with just a pen and paper, like really old school. A lot of other academics talk about sitting at computers and writing code but you seem to be very old school. You've got the neatest notes of anyone I've ever seen, but you like actually just that tactile. And I'm happy to write pages and pages. It's probably not the most efficient thing to do where you've got a big long expression and you try and simplify it. Each time you're just trying to simplify it down. But you'll write them out long hand. The only thing that's changed recently is using something like Notability on an iPad,. So it quickens

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