A team of psychologists have identified a mathematical network in the brain – distinct from the one recruited for language-mediated thinking.
It is activated when we juggle or simply see numbers. Needless to say, this
network must be more developed in mathematicians – or, more generally, in
individuals who are better with numbers rather than words. Needless to say, this
may be the network you need to have beefed up in your brain in order to be
taken seriously as a social scientists these days (and soon it may give you a
leg up in the humanities, too). So, unlike Cypher who says he sees people when
he looks at numbers, you will be able to see numbers and equations when you
think of people and social “interactions.”
