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| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Fuck math. |
Where are you coming from with that? Most people "hate math" because it was boring and pointless when they did it in school. But most people don't have a clue what mathematics is, because mathematics is not taught in schools. What is taught, is a set of procedures for manipulating figures, symbols, etc. That's like an art academy teaching students how to draw straight lines instead of letting them be creative and teaching them how to explore. Most people also have some idea that math is useful (say, for doing your taxes) which also misses the point that 1) math is far more useful than that 2) mathematicians study math because they find it beautiful, not because it's useful. And I think the conclusion people come to is "mathematicians are out of their minds for studying something so stupid" rather than "maybe they're on to something that I don't know about".
Anyway. Not judging you, just ranting about how completely misunderstood math is.
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