While Feynman is studying at Princeton, the physics and mathematics departments have tea together every afternoon at four o'clock. During the teas, students from the two departments discuss topics of interest to both physicists and mathematicians (such as the topology of an orange) although they often view the topic in distinctly different ways.
Although he likes to argue with them and give them a hard time, Feynman befriends many of the math students. They teach him a lot about mathematics, and he is surprised to discover there.....
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