Response to the Mathematician’s Lament
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The Mathematician’s Lament hit me hard as someone who loves music and art, I couldn’t imagine a world where a child’s only exposure to art or music was one where it was so proscribed as Lockhart suggests. I grew up as a competitive dancer and it continues to shape my outlook, reading Lockhart’s Lament…