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| Detail from “The School of Athens” a fresco by Raphael (1483 – 1520) [Click image to call up all published instalments] |
At one time I was a math wiz. Numbers just made sense to my young mind and I loved being the first to complete calculations, slapping my pencil down on the desk—too early according to my teachers, who encouraged rechecking solutions. Even doing so, I still turned my sheet over quickly and, when graded, was found to have the right answers.
Ah, those were the days—before sine and cosine took me down, before a graphing calculator I defiantly rejected became a necessary tool and my love for numbers diminished.
