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Explaining maths without Numbers

Tim Harford interviews Milo Beckman - a young mathematician, still in his twenties, who has written a book called 鈥楳ath without Numbers鈥�. Milo explains why he wanted to strip out digits to make it easier to describe the beauty of mathematics.

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