Wioletta Ruszel argues that part of the reason why so many people claim to be bad at math is that it is socially acceptable for them to say that they are. But, she believes, that math is the only absolute truth that we have.

Wioletta Ruszel is an assistant professor of applied probability at TU Delft.

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