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<p>Barbara Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and the author of, most recently, <em>A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If  You Flunked Algebra)</em>. She is also co-instructor, with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, of one of the world’s largest online courses, “Learning How to Learn,” with Coursera.</p>


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