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- I feel compelled to plug the book Indra’s Pearls here, by David Mumford et al.
- The problem with mathematics is that it's very hard, it's not for everyone, the common folk cannot understand it, and 99% of those who can will not be on the level of a Felix Klein or Henri Poincaré. This is well exemplified in the book "Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein", even today it's hard to trained mathematicians to visualize what Klein described. How many mathematicians does the author of the post supposed there was at Göttingen for just one Klein to come out of blue? To be answered just read the paper "Klein, Hilbert, and the Gottingen Mathematical Tradition". I study applied math and computational science at university, still an undergraduate, because I have fun studying it, not to be a professional mathematician, I'm not smart enough to be good in the area in which I study (Numerical Analysis and Applications, Inverse Problems, Stochastic Processes and Scientific Computing), I'll probably try be a experimental physicist if I chose to remain in academia or will try to be a sysadmin (I already work as one in a part-time job).
