Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Importance of a Very Good Teacher
Almost every one who makes a career in the mathematical sciences, did you have a particularly important time in your life wher you were influenced by by a teacher? Almost everyone will say they had a formative experience with a great teacher. There's some sort of threshold where, once you're pas the threshold, even if, even if you then got a bad teacher or a lazy inspir ma, you're now immune. But before i do, i want to get back to this point of the teacher and the importance of a very good teacher. That's right. You yourself have said that you had very good teachers growing up. And yes, they all say that it seems to be a very
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