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I think you are absolutely right. This will (apparently) never happen. I actually had a conversation with the mathematics department chairman about this after
by ArkyBeagle 11y ago
I think you are absolutely right.
This will (apparently) never happen. I actually had a conversation with the mathematics department chairman about this after I took the formal logic course as a junior in college. "Why wasn't this the first course I took?" I made A's on all subsequent math courses; I'd been a lot B's and C's up to then.
He didn't say he knew why we don't. Now, this is a smallish college that started as a normal school - a teacher's college - and still is a teacher's college. The only graduate courses there were in education.
I think we all actually know why. We cargo cult these things to a deep level. I don't think it's intentional; I think that very few people know what rigor and formalism are. It's painful to learn.