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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically…

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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as…
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the…
In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only…
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with…
Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have…
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.… — Keith Devlin

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