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A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times

A good person. Not a bad resolution to make, in dark times. (J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace)

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, first when we learn to speak it, second when we learn to read it. Fortunately, mathematics has to be learned only once, since it is almost wholly a written language

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature

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