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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

Medicine and the Machine

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I Have No Head for Math, Which Brings Me to Medicine

Both of Eric's parents are physicists. He has an older brother who's a MIT professor and a younger one who's a computer scientist at Google. And he had no head for math, or at least that's what I told myself all these years. But then unfortunately you realize there's quite a lot of math in it. So could someone like him have been saved from this unfortunate label as having no head for maths? It brought me to medicine, by the way. That is not that is not a space that I belong in.

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