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An A-Class Reject - with Ed Copeland

The Numberphile Podcast

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Do You Ever Wonder What the Maths Have Been Like?

I've often wondered what would have happened and I fear I wouldn't have been good enough. Maths has played a big role in my life and in ways which I wasn't expecting. My dad was looking after my mum until about 2009 when he himself was feeling unwell. And then it turned out he'd got Mises Thieleoma, which is a very, very nasty cancer of the lining of the lungs. He stayed with us at home for the last six months before his death. Now we're about 2012 and my daughter's about to do her A levels. So here comes the maths. This is the high school exams you do, which if you pass these exams,

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