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The Importance of Flexibility in Mathematics
Eugene, Sarah and Emily join us to talk about their love of maths. Eugene says he doesn't feel the need to make everything into a single hierarchy. For me, for you, that thing is best. I think it's for you. And in maths, we often say, well, here's a sense in which- this is a really interesting point of view. But actually, if we're trying to understand, it's like the map of the tube. It's not geographically accurate, but it's really helpful to help us get around. That's why I'd spot things in the wild that were mathematical, but also in a piece of music. You see there's
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