Richard Elwes

The Math, “I was never any good at mathematics.”
I must have heard this sentence from a thousand different people.
I cannot dispute that it may be true: people do have different strengths and weaknesses, different interests and priorities, and different opportunities and obstacles. But, all the same, an understanding of mathematics is not something anyone is born with, not even Pythagoras himself. Like all other skills, from portraiture to computer programming, from knitting to playing cricket, mathematics can only be developed through practice, that is to say through actually doing it.