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Once Upon a Prime with Sarah Hart

Once Upon a Prime with Sarah Hart

Update: 2025-10-22
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Leslie’s conversation with Sarah starts with the connections between mathematics and literature, including references to Shakespeare, Herman Melville, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Douglas Adams, and more. Good writing has structure, and structure can be understood in mathematical terms, and Sarah explains how mathematics can greatly enrich one’s enjoyment of literature. Sarah also describes how mathematics can be used to obfuscate rather than clarify, and how being a female mathematician today is different - and similar! - as in the 19th century. 

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Once Upon a Prime with Sarah Hart

Once Upon a Prime with Sarah Hart

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