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From the Ted Talk by Cédric Villani: What's so sexy about math?

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Here's a modern example you will all relate to: searching the Internet. The wrold Wide Web, more than one billion web pages — do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data.

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These stories show that mathematics is able to make us go out of our intuition _______ the _____ which seems infinite, see atoms which are invisible or detect an imperceptible variation of shape. And if there is just one thing that you should take home from this talk, it is this: ___________ allows us to go beyond the intuition and _______ territories which do not fit within our _____.

Here's a modern example you will all relate to: searching the Internet. The _____ Wide Web, more than one billion web pages — do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data.

Solution


  1. earth
  2. grasp
  3. world
  4. measure
  5. explore
  6. mathematics

Original Text


These stories show that mathematics is able to make us go out of our intuition measure the Earth which seems infinite, see atoms which are invisible or detect an imperceptible variation of shape. And if there is just one thing that you should take home from this talk, it is this: mathematics allows us to go beyond the intuition and explore territories which do not fit within our grasp.

Here's a modern example you will all relate to: searching the Internet. The World Wide Web, more than one billion web pages — do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data.

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