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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Language of Mathematics

As a kid, I was kind of fantasizing about not being a mathematician. But as you say, this is a great language to describe patterns. And actually, you know, you could say it's nature's language. That's often to understand what's going on in the physical universe. We reduce it to mathematics. What I love about this language is that it doesn't have irregular verbs. Yet it does have kind of strange twists and turns. Everything isn't obvious.

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