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My daughter was frustrated by an activity in a math class where they had to solve as many problems as they could in a minute. I told her this bears no connection to actual mathematics—I’d been working on the problem I just solved for 20 years, which blew her mind!

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Quanta Magazine

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· Sep 13, 2021

.@samitdasgupta, a mathematician at Duke University, answered a century-old math question using a formula he wrote in 2004 for his doctoral thesis. “Half my life I’ve been working on this, so it’s very satisfying to have finally completed the proof.” quantamagazine.org/mathematicians

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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Sep 22, 2021

I could never memorise my times tables (they were so boring), but now I get to play around in a land of logic, type theory and mathematical foundations as part of my job, after rediscovering the beauty and creativity behind maths later in life.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Sep 22, 2021

Maths is so much more than arithmetic and wrote memorisation. I'd encourage you to read the short essay, “A Mathematician's Lament”, if you've not come across it before: maa.org/external_archi

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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I understand that it might be what is needed to survive the current syllabus, but I do hope for a world where we can give students a true glimpse of the beauty of mathematics. It's a constant struggle to un-teach the horror people have of the subject – it's heartbreaking.

11:20 AM · Sep 22, 2021Twitter Web App