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Breaking Down Universality
Thomas Lin is the Editor In Chief of Quanta Magazine and the editor of two math and science books, “The prime number conspiracy” and “Alice and Bob meet the wall of fire”. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss a unique mathematical phenomenon across the world known as Universality.
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