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I thought I had been taking math my whole life until I finally took a math class.
by adultSwim 13y ago
I thought I had been taking math my whole life until I finally took a math class.
- jackmaney 13y agoBack when I was in academia, one of my favorite student evaluations from an abstract algebra class had the following comment (paraphrased from memory): "This course was like climbing Mt. Everest. It's difficult, and sometimes slow going, but at the end, it's breathtaking how much you've learned and accomplished."
- jfarmer 13y agoHah, yes! I hated math in high school but wound up graduating with a BS in mathematics from the University of Chicago. It wasn't until I took my first math course at Chicago using Michael Spivak's Calculus that I thought, "Wait, if this is math, what was I studying all through high school?"