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Allen Farrington
By Brian HIrschfield and Rob Hamilton
Aired May 15, 2026 · 1h 32m · Last boosted May 18, 2026
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In this first-ever guest episode of Magic Internet Math, Rob Hamilton and I (Brian Hirschfield) welcome author and thinker Allen Farrington for an unfiltered tour through math as a liberal art, why rigor matters more than vibes, and how curiosity—not applications—often drives real progress. We trade stories about learning (and unlearning) math, from the lore of the irrationality of √2 and CP Snow’s Two Cultures, to Paul Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament, Joel David Hamkins’ philosophy of mathematics, and the perennial tug-of-war between pure and applied work. We also dig into education: what good teaching feels like, why boredom or...
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