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May 14, 2009

The Folger’s Luminous Arcadia: Sexy Time for Your Brain

Hot for Teacher: Erin Weaver and Cody Nickell get excited about math in Aaron Posner’s new production of “Arcadia.” A few years after Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dominated network television with their “show about nothing,” Tom Stoppard astonished the theater with a play about everything. More specifically, the mathematical conceits that govern the ultimate predictability of everything. Or don’t. Learned opinion varies about the math. Not so vis-à-vis the play: Arcadia was hailed…

 
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