How can you love mathematics?

Mathematics has always troubled me, as I do not love mathematics.  I do not feel a strong emotional attachment to it.  Yes, I understand it's the basic building block of an abstract view of all reality, and that through the memorization of various formulas one can calculate and create models for greater measurements of all things, which is great.  But studying mathematics for the sake of mathematics seems empty, unless I know I'll use it for a career related to what I'm studying.  If I were an architect, I would study architecture, and I would do it because I loved studying architecture.  I'm not becoming a mathematician, and I have no drive or motivation to study such things. 

At times I might have a euphoric realization that math is connected to all things, along with the drive to complete problems like some sort of logic machine presented with ever more challenging puzzles, but more often it seems tedious, pointless, and no great achievement when millions of others have done it before you, your sheet of problems is turned in and forgotten, and you go on to the next assignment, endlessly, like some gross form of manual labor where you must complete sudoku puzzles all day long.  To that I say great, leave such things to the workers of math, the diggers and bricklayers who will labor daily with their abstract problems.  I'm glad the true lovers of math have chosen their profession and pursued it with vigor.  Since they have dedicated to much to their specialized line of work, if I need them I will hire them.    

Math is a great tool.  The utility of the tool leads to the love of the tool.

If you don't see the utility in math, then you're doing the wrong thing in college.  Go for Liberal Arts or some other, useless "feminformation" type of program.  Math is a great tool and only the worthy can see its value.

I like math because I don't have any friends

>>3
this and pure math is an art. why do people create art? because we can, and touches on something greater than ourselves. It just so happens that math can be applied to the 'real world', which makes it border science and art.

I think math is interesting as a science and complex enough to give you real mental stimulation and exercise that you can't get from other activities.
Math is like a fetish for some people.

>but more often it seems tedious, pointless, and no great achievement when millions of others have done it before you, your sheet of problems is turned in and forgotten, and you go on to the next assignment, endlessly, like some gross form of manual labor where you must complete sudoku puzzles all day long.

You think an architect does any different?
You think people haven't built buildings before?
Unless you get the opportunity to do something really grand (a large bridge, government building ect) you are just going to be doing the same as other people.

>>4

I was going to reply to this earlier.

When asked honestly by a student (and it wasn't calculus or linear algebra, it was a theorem in topology), "Why?  Why this?"  He simply replied (in so many words), "It's beautiful.  A good poem is beautiful."

>>6
THIS ONES FROM THE BOOK

WE SHALL ALSO FORBID YOUR WHORISH TOPOLOGY.

>>8
You're just jealous.  Topology is the only math worth doing.

>>9
Topology is for niggers.

>>10

If topology is for niggers, call me Miles Davis.

The Miles Davis of topology can play the Klein Bottle like a horn.

>>12

G'HUY! *SLIDE WHISTLE*

>>12
Fundamental group, GO!

I love mathematics roughly, like an abusive husband.

>>2
The guy said he can see the value of math. He just doesn't like it.

God you're a faggot.

Same here, OP.

I see the value in it, but I just don't like it. I too, feel like this has all been done before, and there feels little reward for what appears to be nothing more than a puzzle. Growing up on video games, perhaps I developed a lack of patience for these sort of things, so I respect the man who the will power to master this sort of thing.

I love mathematics but I didn't like it that much until I started doing proofs myself. I started out with physics but it was full of numerals and computations so now I'm studying math.

I love math, but its no substitute for the warm embrace of a woman.

>>19
That is not true, sir. With the help of my TI-89, I can lie tangent to many functions within seconds.
With or without my TI-89, it takes lots of time and money to end up lying tangent to a woman.
Therefore, math > women.

>>20

I'm dating Mathematica 6.0 right now, I hope she doesn't lose interest after I graduate.

>>21
Make sure to hold on to her.
And try not to get seduced by that whoring bitch Maple. She gets around.