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Comment author: arundelo 25 June 2009 12:44:15AM 0 points [-]

Scott Aaronson writes about A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul [Lockhart].

The Lockhart piece is great and deserves to be much better known. The only bad thing about it is that it pisses the reader off.

Thanks for the link to Aaronson's commentary; I hadn't seen it.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 25 June 2009 10:15:13AM 3 points [-]

The only bad thing about it is that it pisses the reader off.

It does? I thought it was more heartbreakingly tragic than anything else.