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The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...

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One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...