It’s time to let the secret out: mathematics is not primarily a matter of plugging numbers into formulas and… — John Allen Paulos
It’s time to let the secret out: mathematics is not primarily a matter of plugging numbers into formulas and performing rote computations. It is a way of thinking and questioning that may be unfamiliar to many of us, but is available to almost all of us.
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