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96. Steven Strogatz Thinks You Don’t Know What Math Is

People I (Mostly) Admire

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How to Communicate Math Back Ideas

"I was an excellent high school math student. I had a real talent for memorizing tricks and rules for solving problems," he says. "If I didn't have any restrictions, if I or some other teacher could do whatever we wanted to help students learn math, would we do a better job?" Math is a beautiful thing the way that music and art are. The math has changed the world."

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