And perhaps there is something pretentious, anxiety inducing, something deeply nerdy and off putting about knowing your way around numbers. Speaking about them with care.
That's our fault, mathematics teachers. We can't keep traumatizing the youth and alienating people from mathematical reasoning.
It opens a door for some people to be seduced by the comforting and seductive notion that things that you don't understand well can't possibly be important.
myrmepropagandist
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