In this episode we discuss the essay A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart, which lays out interesting ideas about mathematics education. We then talk about whether the current public education system is any good, if we can anthropomorphize society. We also learn two new words.

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SHOW NOTES

Lockhart’s Lament (the essay in pdf)

A Mathematician’s Lament (the book version on Amazon)

Integrated Mathematics from Western Michigan University

Some Proofs WIthout Words

Exoteric

Einstein’s Thought Experiment on Going the Speed of Light

G.H. Hardy

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Two Column/Statement Reason Proofs

118 Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

Idiocies