“… I think so much mathematics … so much mathematics is actually visual, and – I’m going to be controversial here – I think our brains, our mammalian brains, are primarily visual as well and pictures speak a thousand words and spawn 10,000 ideas.”
Looking for Joy in Mathematics: An Interview with James Tanton, 29:23-29:41
A distinct cortical network for mathematical knowledge in the human brain, Marie Amalric & Stanislas Dehaene (2019)
“Our findings support the hypothesis that mathematical concepts form a domain-specific area of knowledge with a distinct cortical substrate” (p.29)
“… we found that even rote algebraic facts, such as knowledge that 