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"Maths... as its taught in school is often... boring, pointless, painful, beside the point, and doesnt show people the things that... are the most beautiful about abstract math, and what the point of it is..."
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Eugenia ChengInfinity is a Loch Ness monster, capturing the imagination with its aw — Eugenia Cheng
"Infinity is a Loch Ness monster, capturing the imagination with its awe-inspiring size but elusive nature. Infinity is a dream, a vast fantasy world of endless time and space. Infinity is a dark forest with unexpected creatures, tangled thickets and sudden rays of light breaking through. Infinity is a loop that springs open to reveal an endless spiral."
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Eugenia Cheng
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Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food and baking. Cheng is a scientist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute
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"We will never be able to encompass everything by rationality alone... [T]his is a necessary and beautiful aspect of human existence."
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"[S]omething is easy if it is attainable by logical thought processes.... without having to resort to imagination, guesswork, luck, gut feeling, convoluted interpretation, leaps of faith... drugs, violence... [etc.]"
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"Id like to talk about abstract mathematics and my experience of making it... palatable to people who may have had very bad experiences of it..."
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"Now, if you imagine drawing a circle in the air with a , the surface you make is a over a circle. The idea is that for each point in the circle, you now have an entire vector, that is, a line given by the lightsaber at that instant."
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"... I wish we could educate people not just to be able to do things and know things, but to be nicer humans — and to get their self-esteem not from being better at something than someone else — but from how much they are able to help someone else do something."
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