81 Sanjoy Mahajan - Street-Fighting Mathematics

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🗓️ 10 April 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Sanjoy Mahajan, Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College of Engineering, Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and author of Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:33.0	app. I was having a moment in the shower this morning where I had a random thought.
0:44.1	How many pizzas do you think Americans eat in a year?
0:48.9	Oh boy.
0:49.9	Are you interviewing me for a job at Google?
0:53.8	Yeah, this sounds like a management consultant interview question, but honestly, how many do you think?
1:00.3	All right, so we're going to do this.
1:02.1	Okay, so there are what, 300 million people in the U.S.?
1:04.9	That seems about right.
1:06.6	And of them who eat pizza, maybe what, half?
1:11.9	I would say maybe like twice a month is how often I have pizza.
1:15.1	No, no, no, but out of the 300 million people, how many actually eat pizza?
1:19.0	Oh, that's a good question.
1:20.6	I think they're American, so every single one.
1:24.1	Okay, I think you're wrong.
1:25.2	I'm going to say half.
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