If you hang around these newslettered woods often, you'll likely recall that I'm Cheez-It®-level obsessed with the following quotation from the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead:
"Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.”
Whitehead was talking about algebra—i.e., treating symbols …
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