Math

so good, i had to post it everywhere. http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

yes, it's about math
no, it's not full of math questions
yes, you'll like it
no, it's not a short read
yes, math in school sucks
no, math's not useful in the real world
yes, math is an art
no, math is not memorizing formulas
yes, this is a tl;dr
no, you should still read the whole thing

that's amazing, all the times i wondered about the volume of shrubbery and optimal placement of sandwich condiments, i was doing math :)

it's true, i'm one of the people described in the paper as "told was good at math but was actually just good at doing what they were told" but math and i had a fallout because i decided it was too damn easy to apply formulas senselessly (also predicted in the paper).

maybe it's time to give math another chance?

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