Episode 40 - Ursula Whitcher

Kyne Santos, a drag queen and mathematics educator living in Canada, is a big fan of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Also hiking. 

Jeremy Alm likes the Rado graph, a weird object that captures all sorts of interesting properties of finite graphs. Also cheese. 

Robin Wilson likes the Hopf Index Theorem and we agree. Also, hot fudge. 

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