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A Bew Breed of Numbers

Pythagoreans found irrational numbers not only counterintuitive but threatening to their world-view. In this lecture, we'll get acquainted with—and use—some numbers that we may find equally bizarre: p-adic numbers. We'll learn a new way of looking at number, and about a lens through which all triangles become isosceles.

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