Opinion of Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament
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« on: November 19, 2022, 07:19:18 AM »
« edited: November 19, 2022, 07:48:59 AM by Benjamin Frank »

This is the book: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

I was sent a link to this video after I complained about math teaching, and it took me a couple minutes to realize I was familiar with it and that I had even quoted from his book here before.

This is the video:



Probably the most contentious line in the book: "Many a graduate student has come to grief when they discover, after a decade of being told they were 'good at math', that, in fact, they have no real mathematical talent, and are just very good at following directions."
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