When you folks really got into math...

Did it change you in some way?

The reason I ask is because a lot of mathematicians in history have been pretty eccentric.

Let us know your experiences.

I've never been the same person since. My mind has gotten sharper, and I think differently now. I've always been a little weird, but I guess that's just continued because of the weird math culture. Sometimes I get obsessed and think about the same thing for days, and then drop it rather abruptly and just go on with life. I've become more confident and paradoxically have less self-esteem--partially because now I can argue my positions for general subjects quite effectively due to thinking logically, but also because I know that there's so much math I'll never know, and that I'll always be inferior and wrong somehow.

I got into math really early, so I have nothing to compare it with.  Not surprisingly, I'm generally considered eccentric/insane.

I took some 200 level math courses thinking they would give me new insight in biochemical and microbiological problems.

Boy was I wrong.

My exposure to math led to fairly deep contempt for the innumeracy of the general population.

To be exceptionally good at mathematics is not common so it follows that those who are good at maths are abnormal to the rest of the population.

I suspect that those are good at mathematics are born that way and their brains hard wiring from birth which allows them to be good at the subject may also have the side effect of leading to seemingly unusual behaviour.

I’ve studied a lot of mathematics and I generally find I see problems/things in a way a lot different to others.  Maybe my interpretation or expression of these problems leads to others thinking I’m slightly eccentric?

As far as I'm concerned, anyone brandishing the 'eccentric' label is just trying to avoid their own sense of inferiority.

Logic certainly did, but not so much mathematics.

I got arrested for starting a business selling pornography to children

I wonder what it feels like to stuff math into your cunt

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Yes, Math did change how I seen things.

But then again, I'm also really philosophical with it.

Doing it without any philosophy probably won't do much.

Everyone is different.

When I got into Analysis, I became better with words for a few months. Making connections between things came to me a lot more easily, so I talked a lot more. Then I didn't care anymore and lost the whole thing but that's another story.

>>1
Hell yes. I'd been into math since I was a kid, but when I got into the deep stuff, I started seeing everything differently, especially from an analytical perspective.

What's a math course to take that will give you tools to solve chemical equilibria and chemical kinetics problems better?

>>1
Most historical mathematicians got into math when they were toddlers. They were ALWAYS eccentric.

>>16

Until you get quite advanced, you shouldn't need anything beyond arithmetic.

>>7
Ok, so I'm inferior.  Now what?

>>16
Algebra, and later basic calculus.

I've only done math intensely for a few short periods, but it scares me a little.  I can't help but wonder what does it mean, to understand a little more of something infinitely complex?  I kinda feel like I could get lost in it.

Programming is what's seriously distorted my worldview though.  Not infrequently I think about people as being some sort of program or algorithm.

>>20
wow me too. maybe is should have been a plumber