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How to think like a mathematician

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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If you took the sun and shrunk it down to three kilometers in radius, then it would form a black hole. And equally importantly, you worked out what happened to be shrunk and deep to down to the size of a house. Yeah, there's a few different aspects of mathematics. There's more kind of building models and taking theoretical structures and finding ways that they are analogous to everyday life. Then there's the kind that I think about as more like counting and measuring.

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