How Is It That There Are So Many Minds That Are Incapable Of Understanding Mathematics? ... The Skeleton Of Our Understanding, ... And Actually They Are The Majority. ... We Have Here A Problem That Is Not Easy Of Solution, But Yet Must Engage The Attention Of All Who Wish To Devote Themselves To Education.

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How Is It That There Are So

Henri Poincare

How Is It That There Are So Many Minds That Are Incapable Of Understanding Mathematics? ... The Skeleton Of Our Understanding, ... And Actually They Are The Majority. ... We Have Here A Problem That Is Not Easy Of Solution, But Yet Must Engage The Attention Of All Who Wish To Devote Themselves To Education.

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Science

Skeletons

Understanding

A First Fact Should Surprise Us, Or Rather Would Surprise Us If We Were Not Used To It. How Does It Happen There Are People Who Do Not Understand Mathematics? If Mathematics Invokes Only The Rules Of Logic, Such As Are Accepted By All Normal Minds...how Does It Come About That So Many Persons Are Here Refractory?

People

Mind

Ontology