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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.

— 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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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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Mathematicians have changed the world.

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