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This post originally appered in Business Insider. Mathematics is all around us, and it has shaped our understanding of the world in countless ways. 1) The Pythagorean theorem: This theorem is ...
In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the English-professor characters play a game called "Humiliation," where they take turns admitting classic works of literature that they haven't ...