William Paul Thurston Research Paper

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William Paul Thurston, a well renowned mathematician, once proclaimed that Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding. Math is an elementary concept, but only if you understand it and so many high schoolers don’t understand math, and thus they create a deluded conjecture. And it’s because of the deluded conjecture and Thurston’s philosophy that I devised the Johnson High School Mu Alpha Theta, National Math Honor Society; to assist underclassmen in their excursion to fathom math and appreciate it. Math, one of the most groused about subjects, isn’t meant to be strenuous but it’s supposed to be facile; however it’s only that way if you’re steered properly by teachers, and today there’s