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The Importance of Metaphors for Loyalty
Herman Melville's Moby Dick is one of his most famous works. In it, he uses mathematics as a metaphor for loyalty in the cabin boy. He also talks about infinite progressions of waves in the sea. Eugenia says that mathematical ideas are often found in fairy tales and theory tales.
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