Comments by "CynicalBroadcast" (@CynicalBastard) on "The Math Sorcerer" channel.

  1.  @DctrBread  My experience, as well. Standard education, and expectations, especially in schools belonging to the "lower rungs" of society [cf. elitism] suffer from a lack of sufficient interesting-building material: that is to say, it's overtly "standardised". But in a sense, within the sphere of education, everything [topical, social, etc.] is in an "overdetermined" space of particulars. Everything is interpenetrating, and in this sense, we come to the concept [and only after] to "rigor". [...]
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  2. Nah. I didn't find math interesting at all until I discovered WHY math operates the way it does. It did NOT help to "keep" solutions to ones' self, because that just left me feeling that math was useless to me, in the real world [which it totally can be, it depends on what one does, in the world, professionally, casually, etc.]. When I start to find out how e makes any sort of sense in contrast to i, or what these numbers are, their historical revelation and uses...when I start to think of the philosophy of mathematics, what numbers ARE [what number theory is]...that's what gets me invested.
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