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How to think like a mathematician

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The Mathematics of Cities

Hannah, you deal with the mathematics of cities. And sometimes we would imagine that using maths when you're also dealing with emotional creatures like people might be very hard to join together. So how do you start out? Can you give us an example of the Mathematics of cities? Yeah, of course. Okay, so I think that when you try and use mathematics with its, like, really rigorous rules and, like, hard coded into the universe, and then you try and apply it to people, it's really difficult, especially when you're dealing with just, like, one person. But something happens when you zoom out... It's like the noise in one direction ends up sort of

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