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Mathematical Education

William P. Thurston
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This essay, originally published in the Sept 1990 Notices of the AMS, discusses problems of our mathematical education system that often stem from widespread misconceptions by well-meaning people of the process of learning mathematics. The essay also discusses ideas for fixing some of the problems. Most of what I wrote in 1990 remains equally applicable today.

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William P. Thurston. 2005-03-04. Mathematical Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503081

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