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

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….

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem..

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend m….

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent..

I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite..

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instea….

Some of the justifiable critiques has been by - been so successful in telling this story, you know, there's a danger of saying, oh, well, you know, w….

In fact, we tend to think things have been getting much worse. In fact, over the last 50 years, almost everything in the world on a global scale has ….