Re: Re: Paul Lockhart's book reviewed in the L.A. Times!

From: Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:28:31 -0700

I loved geometry; no numbers. Numbers make my mind go blank.
---J

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:08 PM, tschibasch wrote:
> > People who went into mathematics and stuck with it and later entered
> > technical fields should be commended.
> >
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> I've always called myself the world's worst mathematician (I nearly
> flunked out of UCLA because, for some insane reason, I decided to take
> honors calc). Indeed, that's why I ended up being a linguistics major.
>
> Discrete math and trig, however, I rocked at, which always struck me
> as curious.
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