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Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician at CMU and coach of the USA International Math Olympiad team. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (08:51) - Planes and bridges
  (12:28) - Writing a computer game from scratch
  (14:54) - Programming competitions
  (18:28) - Math is hard
  (23:59) - Contact tracing that preserves privacy
  (1:01:16) - Math Olympiad
  (1:16:57) - Hard math problem
  (1:24:14) - Is math discovered or invented?
  (1:29:09) - Intelligence
  (1:35:59) - Math education
  (1:40:10) - How to learn math
  (1:49:06) - Combinatorics
  (1:52:13) - Voting trees
  (2:02:36) - Stochastic coalescence
  (2:12:23) - P=NP
  (2:16:39) - Tolkien and WWII
  (2:19:00) - Advice for young people
  (2:21:05) - Meaning of life

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