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Lecture: Ben Orlin (Math teacher, tutor, artist, author)

Title:  The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science

Ben Orlin discusses how seemingly useless bits of pure mathematics often
find surprising applications. How is it that, from knot theory to
meta-logic to higher-dimensional geometry, the math that sounds the most
fanciful turns out to be the most useful?

Speaker:  Ben Orlin, math educator and author of the new book "Math with
Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality" and the
blog.

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Leah Shaw

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