One thing especially deserves emphasis: numbers are beautiful. Their beauty is obscured by the usual way of representing them symbolically.
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I've stressed that numbers are like words, and the metaphor continues: mathematics is like language, its masterpieces like great narratives.
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Unfortunately, mathematics education aims to teach the written language of mathematics before its students have learned the spoken language.
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Which is to say that a sort of mathematical onomatopoeia exists, and is a key part of the magic of expression in this domain of thought.
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