If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn’t make us so anxious

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If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn’t make us so anxious

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Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, ******* physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The ***** of Mathematics and How to Overcome It. Maths, he said, has so much to contribute to society that addressing this ***** is a challenge of the highest importance.

Auerbach was a fascinating character – a scientist but also a patron of the arts. Edvard Munch painted his portrait and Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius designed his house. For a mathematician like myself, the pleasure of…

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