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The frustrations (and mathematics) of folding a map

L. Mahadevan talks about the applied mathematics behind folding maps (NPR).

If you've ever been lost, you've experienced the frustrations of folding up a map. L. Mahadevan, a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University, has studied wrinkles and folds, and joins Noah Adams to talk about why it's so difficult to get that roadmap back into your glove compartment.

Listen to the NPR story