The translator of mathematics is a rare breed. He requires not only a mastery of the informationally dense symbolic formulations in question, but also the ability to artfully press those formulations into the very linguistic paradigm deemed inadequate to express their meaning. Above all, though, he must be able to inspire the curiosity and wonder that motivates the rather uncomfortable cognitive contortions that accompany concepts like probability, higher dimensions, how change changes, and so on, that the primate brain did not evolve to think about.
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