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Re: A Re-orientation of Your Mindset
« on: August 07, 2021, 05:06:37 pm »
My sense of obligation to present something unambiguous to you has led me to the conclusion that these foundations [of set-theoretical modern analysis] are indeed ambiguous since the circle (arc, angle, etc) is used in the definition of distance between two lines.-Herr Hauser

Thank you for that. I hope your foot is better now. Every single day for the last few years I have been studying mathematics and I think I might be beginning to get the hang of it. I can see why this rather unconventional approach to mathematics might interest you. I also can see where Dr. Wildberger is coming from.

I can ,I think see now, that the approach adopted to  teach maths when I was a  schoolboy  was deeply flawed because the teachers probably did not themselves possess a profound understanding and my father is mathphobic.But I have been rebuilding the foundations, brick by brick.As they say, Rome wasn’t build in a day,but after all it was built.

You want to know how they trap folks like me? With the lure of promotions and marriage. Only, they don’t know and won’t understand even if they did know that I drank  deeply from the wells of Schopenhauer. That I think was the turning point. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
As regards our social difficulties, I think it is by design. The society, American or Indian, was never built with the likes of us in mind. We just get in the way. Most people,back in the day, never understood Schopenhauer. They still do not.Now, I might never reach the really advanced topics in mathematics,but I would very much like to have built rock solid foundations as regards the discipline, before I call it a day. I think, thanks to  you,I have been acquainted with the last word in philosophy, and on the day I could honestly say to myself that I grasp, at least, the foundations and the fundamentals of mathematics, I think ,then I would have nothing more to do in this wretched world.

However, it goes without saying that on the days when the panic attacks are particularly severe, I just lose my head.

The gorts WANT all sorts of responsibilities. They WANT to have kids. All of it is not social conditioning. There is something deeper, and virulent at play here.

Get well soon.
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