67: Wrath of Math (Mathematics Used Unwisely)
Mathematics is a subject that has been used for great things over time: it has helped people grow food, design shelter, and in every part of life. It should be, then, no surprise that sometimes mathematics is used for evil; that is to say, there are times where mathematics is used to either implement or justify regressive things like greed, racism, classism, and even genocide. So when has math been used for destructive purposes? What makes us mis-apply mathematics? And why can oversimplification lead to devastation? All of this, and more, on this episode of Breaking Math.
Theme song is Breaking Math Theme by Elliot Smith of Albuquerque.
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Theme song is Breaking Math Theme by Elliot Smith of Albuquerque.
This episode is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For more information, go to CreativeCommons.org
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This episode is sponsored by
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/breakingmathpodcast/support
2021-12-09
23 min
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