“In their minds, the ideas are luminous, simple, and powerful. On paper, they become stunted and sad. The mathematicians’ curse is that they can only play math in their own heads. If you taught children music by giving them the written scores for Mozart or Michael Jackson to decipher without their ever having heard it played, music would be as universally hated as math.”
― Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
― Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
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