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Number Systems

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In Our Spare Times
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Jan-Willem Prügel questions three Oxford mathematicians about the mythical entities known as numbers. What are they? And perhaps even more importantly, why are they?
Show notes: https://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ball/in_our_spare_time/sparetimes-number-systems-show-notes.pdf

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In Our Spare Times
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Jan-Willem Prügel
Aled Walker
Ella Boot
Álvaro González Hernández
Keywords
math
number theory
Pure Maths
complex numbers
Department: Magdalen College
Date Added: 28/10/2021
Duration: 01:15:28

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