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Pathway has identified what Stamirowska calls equations of reasoning, fundamental mathematical axioms that explain how intelligence emerges from smaller, local interactions in the brain, she said.

But the way Stoppard incorporates mathematical concepts as rarefied as fractal geometry to explore concepts of order and chaos as the characters hypothesize on the patterns of time is Stoppardian through and through.

One UC San Diego remedial math tutor observed that “some teachers would teach ‘life skills’ in high school math class, just using calculators, the internet, and prescribed formulas; classes didn’t teach ‘mathematical thinking.’

Finland's Kalle Rovanpera, who is 24 points behind Evans and still in with a mathematical chance of the title, lost valuable time with a puncture to finish the morning over one minute behind Sesks.

There are many notable exceptions, but on the whole, society has become less literate, less mathematical and less able to think and reason critically.