>>24570499
ITA, I attempted a degree in astrophysics and got completely filtered by the mathematics because it became painfully apparent that it was being "discovered," and it came off as an alien language that I couldn't wrap my head around and it flabbergasted me that the equations my professors were scribbling on the whiteboard had any bearing on anything to do with the physical world. All my physics professors took it for granted and never once talked of the history let alone philosophy that underpins this stuff. At the very least one of my calculus professors shared in grasping the amazing fact that high mathematics actually has this essential quality or nature and it's not something we are just making up as we go. Learning about this magical-alchemical history dating back to the 16th & 17th centuries recently was like a missing puzzle piece finally snapping into place - mathematics is but the successful and culturally accepted cousin of numerology.

No wonder Newton wrote more on theology and alchemy, and its further bewildering that STEMlords don't grasp the implications of this. Thats the difference between true philosophers and technical experts I suppose.