This thread is what happens when /pol/niggers come here because their favorite children's fiction author died. Go back.

>be the richest most powerful satanic cabal elite of the world
>doesn't understand that emails can be leaked

there's always something

>>25114074
I am. I don't actually give a shit either. This a literature board. Not a math board.

>>25114074
I am this, anon, sadly. Maths was never my strong suit.

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>>25114074
Yeah I "understand" basic calculus but if you asked me to solve a derivative out of a calc2 textbook I wouldn't be able to do it because I haven't done it in well over a decade.
We live in a world that rewards specialization quite heavily. I don't see any point in practicing math that I do not enjoy and that I do not use in my career.

>>25114087
Cope. And I haven't even read anything by Dan Simmons, so you can't use that against me. Your type is the typical pseudo-intellectual, which has only ever amounted to being a contrarian beatnik, and yet you don't have anything original to say ever. Take a shower and pull your head out of the gutter. You're not better for all your "erudition."

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>he thinks mathematics is a worthwhile endeavor

>>25114074
I have no reason to understand basic calculus in my day to day life because I am not a STEMcel. But a good liberal education can help a person out in all areas of life. Unfortunately the Amerigolem race looks down on anyone who tries to better themselves intellectually.

real talk, every now and then I get a little urge to learn math at a deeper level than simple algebra, and I find a nice little online curriculum to give me a nice little path for learning-- and I proceed to immediately lose all interest. the problem is that it feels so meaningless; putting effort into it feels like studying a language that I have absolutely no reason to learn. algebra has obvious practical applications, being able to manipulate numbers and simple formulas... but anything more abstract has no "flavor," I can't see value in the concepts. I don't think I could ever stir up enough interest in my heart to study math for fun.

>>25114256
im not listening to anything some criminal degenerate has to write or say.

>>25114498
if so you should start with 20th century algebra, not the shit you were taught in middle school

I stopped being a plotfag after I forgot calc. True story.

>>25114502
>criminal
a surprisingly large number of notable writers
>degenerate
vast majority of notable writers

>>25114505
but why? I need motivation. there's so little time in this life, and so many things to do and to be; what do I stand to gain from messing with numbers?

>>25114074
This. Why is /lit/ afraid of math?

>>25114537
the largest number youll need to get through 20th century is 4.

I'm a fool when it comes to math, and watched someone I generally considered to be retarded calculate the number of paving stones we'd need to put around a kidney shaped pool and realized I'm probably the bigger retard.

It's like the professor looking down on the mechanic who could tear down his engine and rebuild it as intellectually interior, when he can't even change his own tire. I don't know if it's correct to say that there are different types of intelligences, but it's certainly correct that there's many types of knowledge and skill sets and many that are commonly looked down upon are just as or even more intellectual than the types we typically view as such

fpbp

>>25114074
book people who are afraid of maths and math people who are afraid of books are both retarded.
t. person who is too dumb to have gotten into either of those earlier (best i could do is modern "computer science" and some social science), but doing it now that i'm old enough to apply mind over matter and stop being a bitch.

I do not call myself smart or erudite. I've read a lot of books. I learned calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, but because I'm not an undergraduate, I don't care about that anymore. I do care about literature, and I think you're a faggot. Parsley sage rosemary and thyme.

I took up to calc 2 and was two years ahead in math for my whole life

I've read a bunch of philosophy, history, and literature

I view myself as a fucking retard for not realizing that the important thing isn't your perception or the books you've learned but working towards a deisrable outcome at all times.

All the knowledge you actually need in life will find you on your path towards something, as long as you are actually moving on a path towards something.

Fuck the theory of forms nigga

and fuck derivatives too

I'm odyssey maxxing

>>25114999
you in the usa brotherman?

canada

>>25114540
Because it has nothing to do with the written word, genius

Only subhumans can't into math.

>>25114074
if you understand the synthetic a priori, and can actually observe yourself doing it and understand what it is, you already understand the only meaningful insight calculus will grant you.
t. physicist

>>25114256
>mathematics is not worthwhile.png
Huh, so Peter Thiel is a fan of uncle Ted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRSWqq4OUI

>>25115064
Only subhumans care about math

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>>25115057
>Because it has nothing to do with the written word, genius
I raise you the following literary works:
>An Introduction to Mathematics - Alfred North Whitehead
>Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Timothy Gowers
>Everything and more: A compact history of ∞ - David Foster Wallace
>Mathematics For Human Flourishing - Francis Su
>A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy
>What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods - Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart
>Mathematics: It's Content, Method and Meaning - A. D. Aleksandrov et al.
>Mathematics and its History - John Stillwell
>A Mathematical Bridge: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics - Stephen Fletcher Hewson
>The Main Stream of Mathematics - Edna Kramer.
>The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics - Edna Kramer
>Mathematics, Form and Function - Saunders Mac Lane
>Mathematics: The Music of Reason - Jean A. Dieudonné
>Mathematics and the Imagination - Edward Kasner & James Newman, with preface and review by Jorge Luis Borges
>James R. Newman's The World of Mathematics
>Timothy Gowers's Princeton Companion to Mathematics
>The Mathematical Experience - Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto
>A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy
>Calculus: A Liberal Art (a.k.a. Historical Approach) - William McGowen Priestley
>Alice in Numberland: A Students' Guide to the Enjoyment of Mathematics - John Baylis & Rod Haggarty
>Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman
>Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics - Howard Eves
>Evolution of Mathematical Concepts: An Elementary Study - Raymond Louis Wilder
>Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery - Imre Lakatos
>Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics – William Dunham
>The Enjoyment of Mathematics - Hans Rademacher & Otto Toeplitz
>Mathematics and Logic - Mark Kac, Stanislaw Ulam
>The Pleasures of Counting - Thomas William Körner
>Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) - Barry Mazur
>The Education of T.C. MITS - Lilian Lieber, Barry Mazur
>Infinity and the Mind - Rudy Rucker
>Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
>Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
>Mathematics Made Difficult: A Handbook for the Perplexed - Carl E. Linderholm
>Surreal Numbers: A Mathematical Novelette - Donald Knuth
>Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
>Men of Mathematics - Eric Temple Bell
>Récoltes et Semailles - Alexander Grothendieck
>Notes pour La Clef des Songes (avec Les Mutants) - Alexander Grothendieck