Maybe because “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” ? I find the

Maybe because “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” ? I find the safest way of learning math a reasonable coupling of history of maths and maths, since you'll have to learn Euclidian geometry before going further anyway. ps. I don't have strong opinions and I'm clearly biased as this is the path I chose myself, but your comment made me eager to speed up my pace.