Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
00:00
I'm a Romantic. I Believe in Elegance
Senior mathematics teacher was a catalyst, ann junturing things and making sure that they happened. He he spent his three periods teaching us interesting math. In fact, the three of us went off and did a mathematics degree at university. I do not vie this argument that if you understand something, you somehow destroy the magic. We evolved over millions of millions of years in the natural world. Where our sense of comes from? It's not clear to me. But i don't think it makes any sense to say anything else.
Transcript
Play full episode
