Seymour Papert writes in the introduction Mindstorms about he was fascinated by gears as a child and spent much time playing with them, and what he learnt throu

Seymour Papert writes in the introduction Mindstorms about he was fascinated by gears as a child and spent much time playing with them, and what he learnt through play provided a valuable intellectual foundation for learning many elementary and advanced ideas in mathematics. http://www.papert.org/articles/GearsOfMyChildhood.html http://www.papert.org/articles/GearsOfMyChildhood.html