June 2021 archive

How gesture and movement help us think

From Annie Murphy Paul @anniemurphypaul Exciting new ideas about how gesture and movement help us think Jordan Ellenberg hates PowerPoint slides. And whiteboards. For him (and for his fellow math professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), it’s an old-fashioned blackboard or bust. “It’s part of the folk wisdom of mathematicians,” he told me in a …

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