A taste for mathematics
Alain Connes and Stanislas Dehaene
Mathematics is perhaps the teaching discipline that has never terrorized students so much! Who can forget the suffering caused by not understanding an arithmetic problem? In fact, very few students take to the subject, which is often perceived as tedious and too abstract. Why, exactly, is mathematics of such little interest to us? Is the abstraction by which we usually define it justified? What, then, is mathematical reality? More simply, how can we appreciate mathematics? How can we instill a taste for mathematics in our children? These are just some of the questions that Stanislas Dehaene and Alain Connes seek to answer.
Further reading
Changeux J.-P. et Connes A., Matières à penser, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2000.
