Mathematicians Are Humans Like You and Me – They Count and Arrange

Abstract

“Math – no, thanks!” said my daughter and the majority of all people I’ve met during the course of my life. How about you – do you also belong to those who haven’t liked mathematics since they encountered it in high school? Let’s assume we are not talking about mathematics but about a lamb roast, and you say, “I have never liked a lamb roast.” Do you think a gourmet cook would accept this just as it was said? No, he would suspect that your aversion to a lamb roast was the consequence of the fact that you never have been served an optimally prepared lamb roast. Now let me persuade you to taste the meal of mathematics which I have prepared especially for you.