The Beauty of Maths, Indian Clerks and Aversion
The author is a govenor at a girls school in the UK. She has some particularly perceptive comments about mathematics ability or more accurately, maths anxiety and parents …
It starts:
The beauty of maths
A POINT OF VIEW
By Lisa JardineThe story of an Indian clerk with an extraordinary talent for mathematics should inspire young people to see the beauty that lies in numbers.
I have been thinking recently about the way in which stories we are told when we are young shape our adult lives.
I am reading with great enjoyment a new novel entitled The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan …
The complete article is at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7144874.stm
Halfway down the above article, there’s an audio version (her as broadcast) – Click on the Listen button (there’s a 20 second prelude to advertise a Christmas show and then Lisa is introduced …)
Somehow the audio version seems easier to remember, not sure why …
