The Hidden Geometry of Everything
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How Do We Learn Mathematics?
Stanislas Wojciechowski has written a book about the neuroscience of mathematics. He says we pick out structures and simplify them in our brains as we try to describe the extraordinary complexity of the universe. "Mathematicians are useful abstractions, but they are arising in our brains," he said.
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