How Do You See Math?
A two-by-two grid of attitudes toward math (beautiful or ugly, useful or useless), with a glum student in the ugly-and-useless corner.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-01-01-how-do-you-see-math/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Title] "HOW DO YOU SEE MATH?" [2×2 grid: beautiful/ugly × useful/useless] beautiful+useful: "math is a monument of civilization" (a bridge) · ugly+useful: "math is an unavoidable practical necessity" (hammer, wrench) · beautiful+useless: "math is sublime abstract art" (a Rothko-like painting) · ugly+useless: "ALAS, YOU ARE HERE" (a glum student)