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tridim

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8. Not a book, but the most interesting teacher on the planet, Vi Hart...

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:17 AM

Jan 2013

http://www.youtube.com/user/vihart

I would have been a different person had Vi been around when I was in school.

Mandelbrot's books also got me excited about math, but I was already in college and not a math major.

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books on math for grade school children [View all] phantom power Jan 2013 OP

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