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[M]ath is—wondering, playing, amusing yourself with your imagination.

— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament (2008)

Source: https://profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lockhartslament.pdf

Printed in Devlin's Angle column and MAA Online (2009).

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