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Jordan Ellenberg
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Bertrand Russell on touching grass
No one seems to know the origin of the contemporary phrase “touch grass,� meaning “get off-line and remember that the real world exists.� I think it is unlikely that it actually springs from Bertrand Russell’s 1930 self-help book The Conquest of Happiness, but � this description of touching grass really captures the modern sentiment!
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“I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
“A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn’t object.”
― How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday
― How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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