Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2024-10-01

Books mentioned on Neil deGrasse Tyson & 3Blue1Brown Answer Your Cosmic Math Questions

2 books · With Grant Sanderson · Watch on YouTube

Grant Sanderson discussed Euclid's Elements and A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Euclid's Elements

   Euclid, Dana Densmore · at 4:01

   Euclid's Elements by Euclid and Dana Densmore is a foundational mathematical treatise that systematically establishes geometry and number theory through initial definitions, postulates, and rigorous logical proofs.

   Discussed

   “one of the oldest texts in math is ukids elements and one of the things he did there is he starts by laying out some axioms”

   Grant Sanderson Neil deGrasse Tyson & 3Blue1Brown Answer Your Cosmic Math Questions 2024-10-01 Listen at 4:01

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   A Mathematician's Apology

   G. H. Hardy · at 6:03

   Discussed

   “I mean there was this this rather famous mathematician Hardy Who Um this was around the time of World War II he was writing this U book called a mathematician lament or sorry a mathematicians apology”

   Grant Sanderson Neil deGrasse Tyson & 3Blue1Brown Answer Your Cosmic Math Questions 2024-10-01 Listen at 6:03

   Where to get it

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