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Mathematical Education — HN submission

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:04:47 GMT

Mathematical Education – William P.Thruston(1990)

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Mathematical Education — mentioned by graemeo

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:33:08 GMT

There was at least one famous mathematician that lamented this view and state of mathematics & mathematics education: "The acceleration of the curriculum has had its cost: there has been an accompanying trend to prune away side topics. When I was in high school, for instance, it was standard to study solid geometry and spherical geometry along with plane geometry. These topics have long been abandoned. The shape of the mathematics education of a typical student is tall and spindly. It reaches a certain height above which its base can support no more growth, and there it halts or fails."…

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Mathematical Education — HN submission

Thu, 24 May 2018 09:47:42 GMT

Mathematical Education (1990)

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Mathematical Education — HN submission

Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:54:22 GMT

Mathematical Education – William P. Thurston (1990)

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Mathematical Education — mentioned by tokenadult

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:25:30 GMT

Fields medalist Terence Tao writes about earlier Fields medalist William Thurston, "In addition to his direct mathematical research contributions, Thurston was also an amazing mathematical expositor, having the rare knack of being able to describe the process of mathematical thinking in addition to the results of that process and the intuition underlying it. His wonderful essay “On proof and progress in mathematics“, which I highly recommend, is the quintessential instance of this; more recent examples include his many insightful questions and answers on MathOverflow." Besides "On proof and…

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