Why Norah loves this book
As a math professor, I feel pretty comfortable saying mathematics education in this country is awful. This book explores the way real mathematics learning happens—and the ideas work for any other pursuit. Far more woo-woo and fascinating than you might expect from the topic!
1 author picked Mathematica as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists
Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from Rene Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case. Like Albert Einstein, who famously claimed to have "no special talent," they said that they had accomplished what they did using ordinary human doubts, weaknesses, curiosity, and imagination.
David Bessis guides us on an illuminating path toward…
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