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user-inactivated  ·  2166 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On teaching mathematics

I absolutely hated analysis for years after I got my degree for all the physics tangents in the calculus/advanced calculus sequence that I had to digest and memorize because they'd be on tests. I was interested in logic and combinatorics, and later topology via category theory. If I wanted to study physics, I would have signed up for physics classes. Mathematics is bigger than physics.