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The great triumph of maths around... 1690 was the development of calculus... and calculus is now probably the best tool that we have in math to tackle the problems of the real world.

— Christopher Budd Math Encounters (2017)

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Math is also developed by curiosity, and just pure abstract reasoning as well, so there's lots of ways it works.

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On the whole, mathematicians don't have a particularly great image.

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Sudoku and Killer sudoku are basically the same maths as scanning. [If you solve Killer sudoku you are using the math of tomography.]

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Why is America such a powerful nation? Because you could reliably sail your ships to Europe and sell all your stuff, and that reliability came from navigation, and that navigation relied on math.

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I'm going to show a picture of a mathematician... that has changed your life profoundly more than anyone I could possibly think of.

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