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September 30, 2021
In the Kitchen: Remembering Julia with Your Favorite Chefs
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September 23, 2021
Farah Jasmine Griffin
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June 15, 2021
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Jesse McCarthy
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Jacqueline Rose
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April 29, 2021
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April 23, 2021
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Brandon L. Garrett
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March 16, 2021
Lolita in the Afterlife
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March 11, 2021
Writing our Ancestors with Boston Review
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February 18, 2021
Judge Jed S. Rakoff
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November 5, 2020
What Just Happened: Writers Discuss the Post-Election Moment
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October 23, 2020
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July 24, 2020
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July 12, 2020
Where Do We Go From Here: A Fundraiser for Black Lives
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June 8, 2020
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Heather Cox Richardson
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November 27, 2018
David A. Kaplan
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October 19, 2018
Jabari Asim
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October 1, 2018
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September 13, 2018
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Roy Scranton
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Howard Bryant
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Fifty Years Since MLK
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Vanessa Grigoriadis
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Chris Hayes
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Yuval Noah Harari
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James R. Valcourt
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Gender and Color in Comics
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Melissa Fleming
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Keramet Reiter
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October 24, 2016
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Thomas Frank
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The Nation’s First 150 Years
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March 24, 2015
Barney Frank
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September 3, 2014
George Marshall
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May 2, 2014
The Opposite of Loneliness
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Steven Johnson
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September 28, 2012
Natalie Hopkinson
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September 21, 2012
Daniel Kantstroom
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
by Marcus Du SautoyPrice $30.00Hardcover
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Marcus du Sautoy
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcome MARCUS DU SAUTOY—the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford—for a discussion of his latest book, Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life. He will be joined in conversation by MELISSA FRANKLIN, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University.
We are often told that hard work is the key to success. But success isn’t about hard work—it’s about shortcuts. Shortcuts allow us to solve one problem quickly so that we can tackle an even bigger one. They make us capable of doing great things. And according to Marcus du Sautoy, math is the very art of the shortcut.
Thinking Better is a celebration of how math lets us do more with less. Du Sautoy explores how diagramming revolutionized therapy, why calculus is the greatest shortcut ever invented, whether you must really practice for ten thousand hours to become a concert violinist, and why shortcuts give us an advantage over even the most powerful AI. Throughout, we meet artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs who use mathematical shortcuts to change the world.
Delightful, illuminating, and above all practical, Thinking Better is for anyone who has wondered why you should waste time climbing the mountain when you could go around it much faster.
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He has also published a play I is a Strange Loop which was performed at the Barbican in London in which he was also lead actor. He has presented numerous radio and TV series including a four part landmark TV series for the BBC called The Story of Maths. He works extensively with a range of arts organisations bringing science alive for the public from The Royal Opera House to the Glastonbury Festival. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.
Melissa Franklin is an experimental particle physicist who studies proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Professor Franklin, born and raised in Canada, received her B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and her Doctorate from Stanford University. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigh, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, before joining the Harvard faculty in 1989.