/lit/ - Literature

>>15821665
>math = logic
This is wrong. Logic is an area that is very different from mathematics. It is a subject devoid of all imagination and creativity that math brings to the table. Sometimes logicians claim to be doing maths but in reality no mathematician will ever care about the logician's work in their day-to-day activity. Of course, it could be said that mathematics uses basic logic as a tool that ensures the proofs are sounds and correct but the same thing could be said about physics or biology. Every intellectually rigorous subject uses basic principles of logic to ensure their arguments are sound.
It also doesn't help that mathematics only started to obtain logically rigorous foundations, particularly in the area of analysis, in the beginning of the 20th century. Only a fool would claim that that's when mathematics started. By the beginning of the 20th century, mathematics as a subject was already a gigantic beast of ingenuity and creativity. The first rigorous definition of the real numbers was proposed by Cantor in 1871, yet a lot of the main theorems in real and complex analysis were already developed by that time.

You all only hate it because you don't understand it. 99% of you did not get maths in school which made you feel insecure, now whenever you see anything rigorous or even attempting at rigor you all shriek in horror.