One summer I was doing drudge work with a lot of empty time so I picked up Birkhoff and Mac Lane.
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But that was the summer between 3rd and 4th years of college. So much time wasted.
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yea I have a *ton* of catching up to do (did about a third an undergrad) but actually looking fwd to it...
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...having learned in the interim most of my teachers weren't just mostly useless to me but actively harmful
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I got lucky. I went to one of the better public high schools, which still nearly drove me away from math…
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…But my freshman CS professor sketched a proof on the n log n lower bound for comparison sorting
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Which was the first time in my life I saw a proof of something useful and non-obvious.
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Considering I went to a 'good' public school, I shudder to think of the quality of math 'education' elswhere
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I went to a fairly "good" public school, managed to fail algebra 2 three times (one year with a 12 rofl)
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my college had a one-semester math req for all majors and, offended by idea of taking non-credit course called
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.."math for liberal arts" I studied about a week to test into calc 1
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switched major to math after a legitimately great intro to proofs prof tho so not all bad
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