A few people have made incorrect mathematical statements in this discussion, so having a math teacher might be useful when learning this stuff. My unsolicited

A few people have made incorrect mathematical statements in this discussion, so having a math teacher might be useful when learning this stuff. My unsolicited advice: take your time and learn some mathematics you might enjoy. Trust simple mathematical definitions over long-winded "explained as easily as possible" essays. Mathematicians congratulate each other for simple, elegant definitions (sometimes developed over decades) which make deriving results easy. If you don't understand a definition which requires only a few words, learn some of the background instead of doing 10000 Google searches for the "easiest" explanation. Here's an example. In physics, a vector is something with a "magnitude" and "direction" and we associate feelings and intuition with this. In mathematics, a vector (in 3-dimensional space) is simply "an ordered triple of real numbers". Many people might find this definition unsatisfying, but it is simple, precise, and lots of USEFUL mathematics is created from it.