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Podcast: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
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Steven Strogatz

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:27:31
Publish Date: 2022-01-01 14:42:09
Description:

A high-school science teacher had him time the swing of a pendulum at various lengths. He found that graphing his measurements formed a parabola. “I got an uncanny chill. There’s something secret that I have just seen, that if you don’t know math, you can’t see.” A mathematician is born. Plus, life with Murray the dog. Music: Bobby Sanabria. Presented with the National Museum of Mathematics.

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