{"id":260950,"date":"2024-09-26T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/if-we-reassessed-what-maths-is-perhaps-it-wouldnt-make-us-so-anxious\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","slug":"if-we-reassessed-what-maths-is-perhaps-it-wouldnt-make-us-so-anxious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/if-we-reassessed-what-maths-is-perhaps-it-wouldnt-make-us-so-anxious\/","title":{"rendered":"If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn’t make us so anxious"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, German physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The Fear of Mathematics and How to Overcome It<\/i>. Maths, he said, has so much to contribute to society that addressing this fear is a challenge of the highest importance.<\/p>\n

Auerbach was a fascinating character \u2013 a scientist but also a patron of the arts. Edvard Munch painted his portrait and Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius designed his house. For a mathematician like myself, the pleasure of\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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