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A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart, Foreword by Keith Devlin

NEW YORK: BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS, 2009, PAPERBACK, 140 PP., US $12.95, ISBN: 978-1-934137-17-8

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  1. School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, Post Office Box 86, FI-57101, Savonlinna, Finland

    Timo Tossavainen

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Tossavainen, T. A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart, Foreword by Keith Devlin . Math Intelligencer 36, 68–69 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9438-9

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