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How to discover your humanity… through math? (with Francis Su)
How to Be a Better Human
How Did You Discover That You Liked Math?
i know from reading your book that at certain points you were actually kind of actively discouraged from pursuing by teachers who were, i'll say, ungenerously, not good teachers. How did you first discover that you liked math? I come back to an experience had when one of my parents friends came over and asked me to add the numbers from one to a hundred,. And i'm like, no, you know, of course I can't figure that out on the spot as he little kid. "Because of a pattern, this thing that seemed very hard suddenly opens up and becomes something very easy, simple," she says.
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