The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

13. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

Nov 18, 2021

43:20

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How Many of Seven Million Cats?

00:48

Sharkskin

04:44

Thinking Better - Is There a Short Cut?

04:43

The Median Mathematician Has More Real World Leverage Than Thematician

05:55

Introduction

2min

The Power of a Short Cut

3min

The Job of a Mathematician

5min

The Power of Short Cuts

4min

How Nature Finds the Short Cut

4min

Sharkskin

5min

The Greatest Short Cut Ever Invented?

2min

The Median Mathematician Has More Real World Leverage Than Thematician

6min

The Greatest Short Cut Ever Invented

4min

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Thinking Better - Is There a Short Cut?

5min

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How to Make for Economics Radio?

4min

You know the saying: “There are no shortcuts in life.” What if that saying is just wrong? In his new book Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life, the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy argues that shortcuts can be applied to practically anything: music, psychotherapy, even politics. Our latest installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club.

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