我家里的人都很喜欢在饭桌上聊天。有些话题是总会被谈起的,其中一个就是我们家族的一些成员在数学方面都天生不足。我总是他们提到的一大串数学天分被破坏的家族成员的最后一个。在过了14年之后,我开始接受这是一个无可争议的、也是不能被改变的事实的看法。读高中的时候,我的几何曾经三次不及格。最终,我及格了并且进了威斯康辛的一所大学, People in my family like to chat at the dinner table. Some of the topics are always talked about, and one of them is that some members of our family are inherently deficient in mathematics. I am always the last one they mention of a long list of family members whose math talent was ruined. After 14 years, I began to accept that this is an incontrovertible view and a fact that can not be changed. When I was in high school, my geometry failed three times. Eventually, I passed and went to a university in Wisconsin,