• Rectangles

  • Jun 4 2024
  • Length: 14 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Folklore tells of a town where everyone was a mathematician. Each person was an expert, whether in arithmetic, algebra, geometry or topology; thanks to this expertise, measurements were always very precisely measured, definitions very precisely defined and costs very precisely calculated.

    Yet, as a mathematician called Simplex discovered, just because people think they've got everything worked out, doesn't mean they won't find themselves confronted by new ideas...

    A story about quadrilaterals, and the difference between knowledge and understanding.

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