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i honestly suspect that the difference between me and like, a lot of (esp. women) with math trauma when it comes to math is
when I ask myself "am I doing this right" I come up with a way to check
when they ask this they go to an authority figure
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RT @QiaochuYuan
anyway, in case it helps to hear me say it: anyone is capable of doing math. some of you have, for lack of a better word, "math trauma," and that trauma can be resolved, an…
https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1423033434239168515
"am I doing this right" is an important question that a lot of working mathematicians are bad at asking!
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
I find this thread/anecdote pretty surprising -- to me this type of thinking is quite native to my style of mathematics, and it's Terry Tao!
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/109633672161867361
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1614811496009064449