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“I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.”

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Clive Anderson is a renowned British television and radio presenter, born on December 10, 1952. He is celebrated in the British television industry for his unique sense of humor and profound insight into culture. more

“Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs-- you deny them mathematics itself.”

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Author:Paul Lockhart

“I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.”

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Author:Paul Lockhart

“Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure”

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“There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depends heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”

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