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Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge Numbers.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Chilling films and Lynchian surrealism pervade the tracklist of “Be Sweet to Me,” which relies on symbolic lyricism to illustrate coming-of-age stories.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
The figures illustrate the scale of the crisis in social housing which has seen rising demand alongside limited supply of new houses.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
To illustrate: This year the hyperscalers are set to spend around $700 billion on data centers.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
The artist was trying, I think, to illustrate dust and high winds: Mars 3 had entered the Martian atmosphere during an enormous global dust storm.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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