We’re All Math People
Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up. The post We’re All Math People appeared first on Nautilus.
Eugenia Cheng, mathematician and author of Is Math Real: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths, on the power of math, as told to Elizabeth Landau.
Stupid Questions
A few years ago, a high school girl did a TikTok asking a lot of questions about math, like how do we know. There really are no stupid questions in math. If something is genuinely baffling you, that’s a good sign. Research mathematicians feel confused all the time and use that as an urge to keep asking questions rather than to run away.
