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What’s your mathematical style?

19 September 2024 at 17:46
cartoon face inside a square root symbol looking confused with the phrase

Enlarge (credit: Ben Orlin)

Math teacher Ben Orlin writes and draws the (aptly named) blog Math With Drawings and is the author of a new book, Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language. To mark its publication, he devised this entertaining accompanying quiz. You can read the Ars interview with Orlin here.

Math, we like to say, is math. It often seems that mathematics is something beyond our controlβ€”something unyielding, universal, inhuman.

But is it really?

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