Crazy stuff...

"All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like) hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."

It's neither. It's just another boring and cruel subject where you need to remember a lot of formulas!!

Mathematics??? What is that??

It was something that I've been ignoring and as now I'm a teacher of English, whenever confronted about maths, my reply is that ""Maths is a language"'

Let's say rather that mathematics is a type of art like literature and other forms of codification of thought. For example, in the 18th century you have in your hands the novel "Faust" by Goethe and you don't know German, it is as if you had "Principia Mathematica." by Newton in the 17th century, if you do not master the respective codes/languages ​​to decipher what they say you would not be able to take advantage of the knowledge presented.

My brother was a mathematician. They think very differently.