#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
Thinking Clearly
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The Relationship Between Math and Narrative
If all you ever did in English class is diagram senses, you probably won't have too keen in appreciation of literature. And that a lot of the real interesting things, like number theory, discussion of primes and that kind of stuff gets left out. There's more logic in a word problem than there is in most short stories or even novels. So I mean, if you put the word problem into context with the whole bunch of related stories, then I think people would like it.
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