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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

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There's No Largest Prime Number

The love for math is still there. What do you use beautiful about mathematics? Because it's still there. It doesn't take a whole depth to see the question. There's no largest prime number. You can get your mind around it in an instant. They're just like beautiful mathematical puzzles that don't immediately have an application, but somehow maybe challenge you. And as a result, push mathematics forward,. Like for Maz last theorem which has challenged mathematicians throughout the centuries and indirectly progressed the field.

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