Indian - Writer | November 4, 1929 - April 21, 2013
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala Devi
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Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
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What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.
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Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.
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I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
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Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging their worldly affairs than make friends with numbers.
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If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
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You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
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I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
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Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
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I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.
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