Greetings /sci/. I only ever took the minimal level of math required to graduate highschool. I tried improving my level back then but could never really solve the more complicated questions in geometry/algebra/trigonometry.
>inb4 brainlet
Here is my theory: highschool math is just making things superficially complicated to filter out whoever is not grinding hard. Given that everyone has computers today, I can't see a researcher ever really needing to do any of the functions we learned to perform manually. The entire point was to see if we get confused by a lot of numbers, variables, steps to solve a question, etc. I've become convinced that it has nothing to do with actual mathematics. I may not be a genius, but I was one of the smarter guys in my school in every other aspect, and everyone who was not a brainlet used to agree with me that he can't see any point (even purely theoretical) in our math studies.
Am I correct? How different is "real" math than what I was exposed to in school, and do I have hope if I still want to educate myself?