“[I]nterest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest… has been killed…”

— Jacob Bronowski

"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)

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Polish-born British mathematician 1908–1974

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