Numbers: No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed

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How is it that numbers can magically map the world around us? Are numbers really Real? Was Pythagoras completely crazy when he seemed to regard numbers as divine entities capable of revealing the truth about things around us? With Michael Moses, Ihran Izmirlih, and Michael Stein

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