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World Service,15 May 2021,9 mins

Explaining maths without Numbers

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Tim Harford interviews Milo Beckman - a young mathematician, still in his twenties, who has written a book called ‘Math without Numbers’. Milo explains why he wanted to strip out digits to make it easier to describe the beauty of mathematics. ( Multiple strings of beads / Getty Images)

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