![]() Thinkers like cold abstractions, vast patterns, ordered lists, organised building blocks, while entertainment types wallow in the sensations and feelings that words, images and action summon in their imagination. While entertainment is the terrain that appeals to feeling and sensing types, mathematics, science and philosophy appeal to thinkers. Thirdly, mathematicians are highly likely to be thinkers. ![]() Numbers, shapes and patterns present themselves as gifts to intuitives. ![]() They can tune in, so to speak, to the mathematical fabric of the universe. Secondly, mathematicians are usually highly intuitive. Profound thinking is almost exclusively reserved for people capable of being solitary for long periods. An extravert, continually distracted by the company he cultivates, never has the time and opportunity to be a deep thinker. To be a mathematician, you must have tremendous concentration, which implies being on your own without distractions. An extravert, on the other hand, enjoys the company of others and goes out of his way to avoid being on his own. An introvert is someone who enjoys his own company and does not go out of his way to seek the company of others. Our definition of introvert is a simple one. "What type of people can hope to understand mathematics? We contend that as a generality only four of the sixteen Myers-Briggs personality types can be seriously mathematically literate.įirst of all, to be mathematically skilled you have to be an introvert. I was reading a book tonight and came across the following: ![]()
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