== A Divine Language ==
==== Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age ====
=== 2022 Alec Wilkinson / 510.715 WIL Beaverton Library ===

 .03 passed high school Algebra 2 by cheating
 .03 Carl Jung amathematikos
 .05 niece [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie_Wilkinson | Amie Wilkinson ]]  Math prof UChicago
 .105 Jean-Pierre Changeux, [[ https://archive.org/details/conversationsonm0000chan
 | Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics ]], "a blackout of rational thought"
 .229 " ... human experience has abstract and practical sides, feeling and reason, and in each of us one or the other tends to dominate.  Belief does not persuade a scientist, and science does not persuade a believer.  Too ardent an embrace of reason leads to irrational thinking, and to ardent an embrace of feeling leads to madness.
 .158 Srini Ramanujan's infinite series for 1/π, author finds strangely beautiful in an elaborate, architectural way.  
  . I find it amazingly convergent, adding accuracy at square law rates per term