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If you don’t feel confused you’re not doing it right

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“My brain just felt like it was contorting itself in funny shapes out of my skull” says mathematician Eugenia Cheng on being told about a graph of squaring numbers as a child. This led to her love of maths – and indeed her love of the mathematics of mathematics. However, Eugenia sympathises with those who find maths tricky, and is now on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia – beginning by sharing why it’s good to be confused about maths. First broadcast on The Life Scientific, 23 January 2018.

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