From Chris Skillern, San Diego, California, US
Beyond simple arithmetic, people shun maths for key reasons, all straightforward and understandable: it is useless in their daily jobs, it is boring and intrinsically uninteresting, and advanced maths is very difficult to master and useful to only a relatively small subset of professionals.
Sorry, but maths will never “belong to us all”. Just like physics, chemistry, biology, geology, engineering, surgery, psychiatry and a host of other specialised disciplines, which don’t (and never will) belong to us all.
