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#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Math Is a Web, Not a Tower

Math is something that we develop this mind set about, for whatever reason. We're just not mathematical, or math isn't my a. It seems it sort of happens to everybody some point, or almost everybody. And so why? Uh, there's a few explanations. You know, one is that the subject, the way it's traditionally taught, is made to seem like a tower. If you can't think abstract about a variable rather than a concrete number, you're going to have trouble with a lot of math. So i if you don't get that, pre calculus is going to be trouble. Algebra, too, is going to been trouble. Some things are indispensable,

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