Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Is There a Hard and Fast Barrier to Mathematics?
Some people are naturally more able to handle mathematical thinking than others. I found mat a but it's if you're a kind of people person, mathematics is a very sort of abstract, austere subject. You know, its just these number things, and you do incomprehensible things with them. i think that the teachers, with some reason, i tend to tell you how to do things, but not why you do it that way.
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