The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You
The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 9, 201714m 16s
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Show Notes
A few years back, a prospective doctoral student sought out Sylvia Serfaty with some existential questions about the apparent uselessness of pure math. Serfaty, then newly decorated with the prestigious Henri Poincaré Prize, won him over simply by being honest and nice. “She was very warm and understanding and human,” said Thomas Leblé, now an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
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