Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World Steven Strogatz & Alex Townsend Little, Brown and Company (2026) When I was studying electrical engineering in India in the 1980s, a professor asked our class: “Why do short- and medium-wave radios produce a crackling sound, or static, when a scooter goes past, regardless of the
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