A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)
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We'd love to hear from you. Today is September 18th, 2025, and my guest is mathematician and author David Bessis. His book is Mathematica. a secret world of intuition and curiosity. David, welcome to Econ Talk.
Well I just wanted to say I I I'm delighted to be here. Great. I want to start by saying that I hope to do a good job in this interview like I do with with all uh interviews, but if I don't do a good job, I want to tell my listeners right now that the goal of this interview is to get you to read this book. I've read it twice.
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