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Commencement Speech: Three Questions

June 7, 2017Original blog post

'Where am I? Where do I want to be? How can I smoothly parameterize the path between them?'

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-06-07-commencement-speeches-for-mathematicians--commencement-speech-three-questions/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Ask yourself three questions. First: Where am I? Second: Where do I want to be? And third: how can I smoothly parameterize the path between them?"

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