September 29, 2000
Finding Your Inner Mathematician
Many people assume that it takes a special kind of brain to be able to do mathematics -- that unless you were born with some kind of "math gene," you simply are not going to be able to get math, no matter how hard you try. As someone who struggled hard with math in school until I was 15, and then got it all at once, I never believed the math-gene theory. What made the difference for me was that everything suddenly made sense -- perfect, simple, elegant sense.
Having taught mathematics
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