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I'm a mathematician. I can confirm that I do this.

• rocqua 9y ago
  Conversation would be so much more lively if the general population knew the basic results and definitions of maths. :p I'd wax poetic about most reals being uncomputable, but good luck explaining cantor's diagonal theorem, measure theory, why we need measure theory, what a real number is, why we need real numbers, how sqrt(2) isn't rational, how numbers can be transcendental, what a limit is. There is so much background needed for maths. People feel like they don't have the talent to get it, whereas really it's a matter of putting in the time to get comfortable with the basics.