Shouldn't evidence to this effect confer greater respectability, and even glamour, to those who devote themselves to pedagogy and outreach?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @stevenstrogatz
There is a broad grassroots movement here on twitter and championed by
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Alas, broad grassroots movements here on Twitter are not going to solve the problem. More first-rate mathematicians must care intensely.
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That's interesting. I didn't think that first-rate mathematicians controlled the direction of math education.
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a) wonder why
@newyorker is tweeting an article from July 2016. b) the 'Seinfeld' paragraph is way off, but in an interesting way... 1/1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
b') it latches on to the converse of 'math is everywhere' (see https://mathbabe.org/2017/08/16/math-still-not-everywhere/ … ), which *also* writes nearly everything math is. 2/
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b'') and wrongly conflates being useful meaningful with being "about something". c) that said, most of rest of article is mostly right 3/
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c') & the answers from Tanton range from non-responsive to just silly. Math&society too important to leave to mathematicians alone. 4/4
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Mathematics is an art. Its beauty should be made vividly evident to all, and those smitten by it should be encouraged to practice it.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @MBarany and
Artists pursue their art because its peculiar beauties utterly obsess them. They neither need nor heed assessments of its social value.
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It is as foolish to insist that everyone must master mathematics as it is to insist that everyone must master the composition of novels.
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It is equally foolish to argue that because mathematics has major technological applications, its growth ought to be "managed" by society.
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When "managed" by society, no art flourishes. Its survival depends upon according complete freedom to those who devote themselves to it.
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