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Math is like an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength. Despite the power of mathematics, and despite its sometimes forbidding notation and abstraction, the actual mental work involved is little different from the way we think about down-to-earth problems.

—from How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, a book by Jordan Ellenberg

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