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Most people use math less and less (even your average cashier will have issues if the machine isn't working).

Will Myron Aub give us the feeling of power back?

I am a cashier. Never use math. I doubt anyone outside academia and parts of industry ever uses math in its proper sense.

Even outside of "proper" academic math, it does seem like there is a worryingly large innumerate population.

It may be that there are few industries that require it professionally, but just because one's profession doesn't require it doesn't mean that one can't, or doesn't, use it. Consider, for example, Fermat, Young, and legions of other, perhaps less well known, amateur mathematicians (for example, Garfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#cite_ref-Ga...) and Napoleon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_theorem))!