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The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry

The Numberphile Podcast

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Do You Have a Constructed Self?

When diagnosed with cancer, Vedda had two versions of herself. One was the person whom you think you are and the way that you like to see yourself. The other is your inner self - the one who gets tired and wants to sit on the sofa all the time. She says there's only so far mathematics and statistics will ever be able to take you in that moment.

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