>>19
who said i didn't? i just said it's not any more beautiful than anything else. i'm usually at the top of my classes, i usually think deeper into subjects than most of my peers and have a better intuitive grasp of things, i like learning connections between various things, across subjects or just to find out why something behaves as it does. i've learned a lot of math now, and i just don't share that feeling i've heard about for years. i've had professors talk about "it is just beautiful when you can see these intricacies!" and kids light up and get genuinely excited at the mention of the words "measure theory". it doesn't do anything for me. at times i've found it interesting, but i've never found it more beautiful than other things. how can you? how can you say "this is beautiful!" as though things beside it were less so. i think it's just intellectual masturbation.