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“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann, reply to a physicist at Los Alamos who had said ‘I don’t understand the method of characteristics.’ —- footnote on page 226 of Gary … Continuar a ler →

Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician’s Lament   (via Devlin’s Angle) “The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it … Continuar a ler →