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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to Improve the Math Education System
I often feel like the math education system at the moment is almost like trying to get you to play a musical instrument, but all it lets you do are scales and arpeggios. So what I was very lucky to have was a teacher who would tell us stories about prime numbers or infinities. Why don't we actually have a kind of like another stream which is telling these big stories, kind of Shakespeare and the Mozart of mathematics? And I suppose in a way that's what I've tried to do with my books. The first book that I wrote, Music of the Prize, the story of prime numbers and the extraordinary journey we've gone on,. Still working on to
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