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Annie Murphy Paul: How We Can Learn to Love Math | Time

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Students have been taught that math is about right and wrong, rather than trial and error

Over the three years Jordan Ellenberg was writing his book, he repeatedly encountered the same reaction to its subject. “I’d be at a party, and I’d tell someone what my book was about, and then I’d be like — ‘Hey, where’d you go?’” What topic was so awful and off-putting as to make people flee at its mere mention? Math. Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has now published that book , How Not to Be Wrong , and rather than putting people off, it will make its readers want to stick around. Ellenberg tells engaging, even exciting stories about how “the pr

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