Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures an….

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation..

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics)..

Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typ….

Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than ….

In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty y….

I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their ….

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small..

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics..

Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than….

Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their ….

The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both….

I saw the first one [video with Hans Rosling ] when he did - I think it was his first one - in 2006, a TED Talk. And for the first time in my life, I….

Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be….

What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without un….

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." Wit….

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers..

The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellen….

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from t….

In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your….

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will alw….