Understanding the meaning of "equals" in mathematics tells us a lot about both the nuance and richness in the field, but also how ideas of equality are used or misused in life ...

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The words and numbers are neatly written in fountain pen, the diagrams painstakingly drawn with ruler and pencil but the answers in this 1963 mathematics book suggest he was no budding Einstein.

Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, German physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The ...