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I'd recommend starting with the (much, much) shorter, modern sequel: Paul Lockhart's "Mathematician's Lament"[1] It addresses a different side of the question.
by romwell 7y ago
I'd recommend starting with the (much, much) shorter, modern sequel: Paul Lockhart's "Mathematician's Lament"[1]
It addresses a different side of the question. Namely, why, if mathematics is about beauty, most people perceive it as an instrument of torture?
(The TL;DR is: the way we teach math is often a nonsencial torture, to the extent that what we teach is not math).
[1]Lockhart's Lament: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
- hackermailman 7y agoThere's a guy who teaches math that makes sense from the bottom up if anybody is interested https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A714C94D40392AB https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A714C94D40392AB If you supplement his rational math with those books from AOPS (art of problem solving curriculum) to practice, it's actually quite easy. Their intro to number theory book is a good example of exploring the 'beauty' (in quotes so I don't sound like a cringeworthy pseudophilosopher)
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