Steven Sinofsky
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first heard Feb 2025
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Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you just play that backwards and you realize that after, you know,
After these guys, you went through this march of algebra and then linear algebra and then calculus.
And, you know, all of – and then, you know, and then with calculus, then you ended up with Fourier transforms and fluid dynamics.
And all of that was first to your earlier point were all based on need.
I mean, so much of this math
And of course, but to be really clear, to calculate integrals so that we could shoot missiles and cannons at each other.
to that.
Oh, yeah.
But I think it's super interesting to keep going with that because to me, what's so cool is that doing that basic calculus for the war and making those missile tables and things like that,
Then it unlocked the space race, basically, and jet engines and factory automation and all of these things.
And, you know, people were cheering that on.
Like that, to me, culturally is the most interesting thing.
Like there was just this – not only were they cheering it on, they were – every parent was looking at their kids saying, go learn that in school.
Go win the Westinghouse competition.
Go win the GE math competition.
Is that because of the Cold War?
Was it because –
Well, obviously, the Cold War was a big cultural part of it, for sure.
But it was just a general... The future.
I found this incredibly cool brochure from IBM.
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