Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 38 Issue 2, May 2001
9 – 11
Finding Your Inner Mathematician
Keith Devlin
Many people assume that it takes a special kind of brain to be able to rlo mathematics-that unless you were born with some kind of “math gene,” you simply are not going to be able to get math, no matter how hard you try. As someone who struggled hard with math in school until I was 15, and then got it all at once, I never believed the math-gene theory. What made the difference for me was that everything suddenly made sense-perfect, simple, elegant sense.
