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Episode 91 - Karen Saxe

My Favorite Theorem by Kevin Knudson

Apr 3, 202400:34:17Science & Medicine

Karen Saxe is an analyst who spends her days representing mathematics on Capitol Hill. She really likes the isoperimetric inequality and its many uses. Also tennis.

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