Math Smarts: Nurture Not Nature

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Math Smarts: Nurture Not Nature
by Farhad Manjoo

2:00 a.m. Feb. 19, 2001 PST

SAN FRANCISCO -- Some people don't mind math, and some people don't mind root canals; there's no accounting for taste, perhaps.

But however much you may dislike mathematics, and however much you think you differ from the monkish number mavens who scratch away at theorems all day long, your brain is really no different from a world-class mathematician's, says Keith Devlin, a mathematician and the dean of science at Saint Mary's College of California.

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