I sat in math class wishing it would end. Now I wish this woman had been my math teacher.https://www.quantamagazine.org/maryam-mirzakhani-is-first-woman-fields-medalist-20140812/ …
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Understanding a number is like knowing a person. Extensive experience of the way numbers behave confers understanding. Nothing else does.
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One thing especially deserves emphasis: numbers are beautiful. Their beauty is obscured by the usual way of representing them symbolically.
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What a great explanation. What does the narrative look like? When I see a formula or an algorithm, is the meaning only its function?
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I would love to share with you some genuine number narratives, but those I've already prepared won't fit here. May I message you privately?
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