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Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign?

Mar 22, 202350 min
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Episode description

Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction.

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