01.10.2018

Mathematicians as storytellers

Mathematicians as storytellers

Junaid Mubeen. Mathematics. Education. Innovation. Views my own.

Mathematicians are storytellers. At times it is obvious, as in the case of Charles Dodgson, the 19th century Christ Church maths fellow who is better known for his literary works — you know him by his alias, Lewis Carroll. But storytelling is a natural device for the everyday mathematician too.