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In Our Time: Science
The Fear Factor in Mathematics
I do think that there is this fear factor, which is quite difficult to dislodge with. Sometimes it's almost the words themselves, I think, kind of. They haven't even, they don't even know what it is, but somehow they've heard that algebra is frightening. It would be for almost anything else. A clever people in your maths, didn't they? Maths in physics, yes, those are the tough subjects. Well, as Cola says, you have a bad moment, and if you're not rescued very, very quickly, then you're lost. Because everything else is declining on top. So here's Tom, therefore we stop this chat and we perhaps
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