The Hidden Secrets of Math: Beauty and Power (Part 1)

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne Santos will help you
discover the beauty and power of math in this three-part Friday
miniseries. Kyne takes us back to ancient Greece to illustrate the
elegance of mathematics. We meet mathematician Tom Crawford, who
combines fieldwork and modeling to predict the impacts of
pollution, as well as philosopher and logician Mark Jago. 
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Best Minds in Mathematics for Generations – The SAT Problem That
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Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper,
Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by
Rachel Feltman and Kyne Santos. Our show is edited by Madison
Goldberg with fact-checking by Shayna Posses, Emily Makowski and
Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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