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The Hidden Geometry of Everything

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Why Do You Love Mathematics?

Stanislas Wojciechowski has written a book about the science of mathematics. He believes that we pick out structures and simplify them in our brains. The whole purpose of the brain is to discriie, simplify compressed information. So why do so many people become a little afraid of mathematics? We seem to do something wrong school, he says.

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