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COVER STORY
Math
Kurt Andersen and Danica McKellar look at math's attraction for artists -- its precision, complexity and purity.
  Eve
Beglarian
A contemporary composer obsesses over numbers, and plays her right brain against her left. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
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to Beglarian's site
Measuring
Genius:
David Galenson is an economist who studies labor markets. These days, he's aiming his quantitative skills at one question: why do some artists produce their best work when they're young and others when they're old? Produced by Fred Mogul.
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to Galenson book, Painting Outside the Lines
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to Salon article
 Math
& The Movies
When people in Hollywood talk about movie math, they generally mean the elaborate and often fraudulent accounting. It's what turns a $100 million dollar box office take into a loss. But there's a lot of math IN the movies, well beyond a Beautiful Mind. Produced by Matt Holzman.
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to Math in the Movies site
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to Engima movie site
Street Math
Every Wednesday at noon in Times Square New York City educator George Nobl sets up a table. He lays out different math problems that need to be tackled and a row of Snickers bars for anybody who gets them right. Produced by Michael Raphael and Steve Nelson.
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to George Nobl's site
SPECIAL GUEST
 Danica
McKellar
is an actor and writer. She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a degree in mathematics. McKellar's best known for her role as Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years." She recently wrote and starred in a short film called "Speechless." Her next film is "Talking in Your Sleep."
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to Danica McKellar's official site
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Playing:
Two years after the centenary
of German composer Kurt Weill, tributes are continuing, including a
large exhibition and performance series now at the New York Public Library.
Weill's music will always bear the imprint of one spectacular performer,
his wife and muse Lotte Lenya. Produced by Sara Fishko..
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to The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
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