>>13629755I was good at math in school and at uni (though I specialized in mathematical statistics, so not really hard core) and I liked it, but for a really long time I thought that doing a bunch of math would make me smarter. So in a sense I thought I was getting something out of it.
Once I realized that intelligence has ZERO to do with the subject you specialize in, I stopped caring about it. The rigor is cool and all, but doing all that won't really help make important progress. I'm too lazy to elaborate on what I really mean by this, but basically if you take someone with X amount of intelligence (whatever your measure), learning about mathematical rigor wont really change the natural limits he has to invent something or solve a problem (in this case within the realm of mathematics). The rigor is like a sprinkling on top of a cake whose core is normal human thinking, as applied to any other subject/situation.
