Many people have an impression (based on years of schooling) that mathematics is an austere and formal subject concerned with complicated and ultimately confusing rules for the manipulation of numbers, symbols, and equations, rather like the preparation of a complicated income tax return. Good mathematics is quite opposite to this. Mathematics is an art of human understanding. Our brains are complicated devices, with many specialized modules working behind the scenes to give us an integrated und

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