How do people see mathematics? I find it’s an odd mixture: revulsion; admiration; fear…. As a Yale math major, then as a teacher, and these days as a blogger/author/inept cartoonist, I’ve tried to understand what role this subject plays in people’s lives - and what I can do about it.

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Ben Orlin is well known for his math blog/cartoon https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/. His first book is about to be published on Sep. 18. Ben graduated from Yale with a Double Major in Math and Psychology in 2009.