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>>14564662
>You’ll find out that there aren’t ‘mathematical’ types of people and that this understanding is generally developed from prolonged exposure to pure logic or synthetic geometry.
Synthetic geometry is a branch of mathematics (one of the oldest) and logic is usually studied in a fairly mathematical way nowadays in the form of symbolic logic. So it has to do with mathematics, at the end of the day.

>If you understand Euclids last few books and Archimedes’ works on spheroids, all the power to you. Those are still some of the harder mathematical works I’ve read
The point of classical analysis has been to make things easier rather than harder. That was also the point of abstract algebra at the beginning, but things got out of hand real fast. And notwithstanding the achievements of ancient Greek geometry, the ancient Greeks' standards of rigor wouldn't stand up to scrutiny nowadays.

>>13624888
>It’s all purely material gain
It's not even that, if you ask me; unless you are talking about applied mathematics in engineering and finance. So far as pure math goes, there is little gain, material or otherwise.