Becoming a Lightning Fast Mental Calculator w/ Arthur Benjamin, PhD (The Live Long Podcast #41)

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
04:20 Taking Valium as a child
08:08 How K-12 education has worsened
11:00 Carnegie Mellon
15:20 Falling in love with combinatorics
23:00 Mutual friend: Professor Jonathan Caulkins
27:00 The value of a liberal arts education
34:45 Backgammon
37:00 Geography and mathematics
38:30 Von Neumann & Morgenstern: game theory
40:30 The Millennial Problems
48:10 Poker, chess, and games
49:00 Mathemagics and James Randi
52:50 James Randi's prize
54:00 Mutual rant on astrology
1:03:30 Changes in academia

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