« The most desperate are the most beautiful Lament »

(Alfred de Musset, La nuit de Mai, 1835)

A mathematician’s lament (2002) is an Article from Paul Lockhart, a first-class research mathematician and teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York. Not only is it a critique of current K-12 mathematics education in the United States, but it’s also a reminder that mathematics are also and above all an art, like music or beaux-arts. I invite you to read at least the two introductory pages.

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