Human Mathematics
Epistemic status: High confidence from pattern recognition across many conversations. Both math-phobia (“I’m just not a math person”) and math-smugness (“I’m naturally gifted”) are illusions—–opposite reactions to dumb teaching procedures. During my university years I had this piece of conversation over and over, in many different flavours: Nice to meet you. What are you studying? < Mathematics. > Ugh, I hate math. immediate change of topic ...