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104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Alice in Wonderland

In Alice in Wonderland, the internal rules of the game say that you can grow and shrink by eating bits of cake and drinking potions. But then you go with it. So if a small child comes up to you and says, you're an ocelot and I'm a space hedgehog, then you are,. And so it's like, if this is possible, then that the whole thing is a gigantic reductio ad absurdum, right? It's proof by contradiction idea that we have in mathematics.

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