Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-04-29

Books mentioned on 104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart

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Steve is on a mission to reform math education, and Sarah Hart is ready to join the cause. In her return visit to the show, Sarah explains how patterns are everywhere, constraints make us more creative, and literature is surprisingly mathematical.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Moby Dick

   Herman Melville · at 44:58

   Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a classic American novel detailing Captain Ahab's obsessive, self-destructive quest for revenge against the giant white whale.

   Discussed

   “I'm getting there. I wrote an academic paper actually about the mathematics in Moby Dick, and that came out in 2021.”

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