🧵 So i wanted to learn math

Anonymous at Thu, 30 May 2024 14:07:52 UTC No. 16200802

>get a modern, american algebra book from some open education site
>1000 pages of prealgebra
>100 pages just for the addition paragraph
>2/3 of it is simple exercises
>book seems to be very "empathic" to make sure i am comfortable with the methods provided
>eventually after 200 pages of gay lobotomy, i remember an old /sci/ thread praising old russian math books
>want to try that
>get some book written by some Gelfand guy 50 years ago
>i open it
>>HEY, FAGGOT!
>w-what? are you t-talking to me?
>>YOU THINK YOU CAN DO MULTIPLICATIONS?
>i g-guess so?
>>LOL YOU BET
>>OK LET'S REVIEW STUFF, THIS IS A MULTIPLICATION, YOU CHANGE THE TERMS YOU GET THE SAME RESULTS
>>THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO MULTIPLY
>>SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND FIND ALL THE HIDDEN DIGITS IN THIS EQUATION
>w-hat? w-wh...
>>SHUT THE FUCK UP
>ALSO MULTIPLY 1010101010101010 FOR 111
>ALSO 10001 FOR 73278314831712
>ALSO 111 FOR 111111111