Varsity Math: Try a WSJ Puzzle Challenge
WSJ's Varsity Math is a weekly dose of challenging puzzles, created by the National Museum of Mathematics. The museum's Glen ...
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"The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance": How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically
This bizarre idea is alien to all our commonsense experience — but there it was, hidden in the symbols of his equation. It took experimental physicists decades to experimentally confirm this ...