Originally Posted by George C
Originally Posted by Val
Err...well, the first point in that presentation claims that "everyone can learn math to the highest levels." I find that statement offensive.
Perhaps the secret to learning math "to the highest levels" is the way it's taught. Have you read The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz? It presents often hard-to-understand concepts in a such a way to make accessible some of math's "most compelling and far-reaching ideas" (quote from the book).
Reading about math for pleasure and enlightenment is good, and I have bought such books for my eldest son. But when a math major studies a topic he or she needs to do calculations and understand proofs of the major theorems, which is much more difficult than reading a popular math book.