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Commencement Speech: Two Identities

June 7, 2017Original blog post

'We all have two identities: multiplicative and additive.'

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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-two-identities/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"It's a mistake to seek your 'true' identity. We all have two identities: multiplicative and additive."

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