“Maths? How awful.” A mathematician hears that line at every dinner party. And behind it lies something far deeper than a bad memory from school: a colossal misunderstanding of what mathematics really is.
No, maths is not just formulas to regurgitate in an exam paper. It is a way of thinking, of reasoning, of refusing to be manipulated by the obvious.
And no, AI does not make it obsolete. Quite the opposite.
In this podcast, I try to mend this missed connection. Why did school so often hand us a truncated view of the discipline? What is its real value, the kind that remains even when you have forgotten everything? And what does the rise of artificial intelligence tell us about our relationship with mathematics?
An invitation to look at this science differently. Not as an instrument of torture for schoolchildren, but as an adventure of the mind.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: The missed appointment with mathematics …
