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Is There a Symmetry in the Human Body?
Mathan: Growing up at being labelled as good at math sort of made me feel like part of my identity was being good at math. And so getting to grad school, which was iwent to the ph d. Program at harvard, you meet some of the most talented people in the world. It's not a perfect symmetry, but that symmetry gives you a guide for how to think bout whatever it is you're thinking about. If we pay attention to what makes us human, it helps us to think more broadly about what means to do mathematics and to do it, to do it.