About to be unemployed at 32.
Living with my parents.
Used to love reading about higher math.
Even went to special lectures for high school students to get access to college-tier lectures, just for fun.
Just samplers of stuff about high-tier maths.
I took physics at community college that had calculus as prerequisite, and then stats class that didn't require calculus so it was kinda gay.
I missed the deadline to sign up for classes for this semester.
I'm too burnt out to find another job.
I'm thinking of just studying math as hard as I can.
It is the closest thing to a higher calling in life.
Is there any hope for career advancement here?
What books / textbooks are recommended?
Is there a way to "bypass" college classes and get effectively the equivalent of a bachelor's degree as an autodidact?
I ask because it's easy for me to teach myself something, but I want to do it right, since this stuff is hard to understand.
I have nothing to suggest my affinity or talent for math other than a 740 on the Math portion of the SAT when I took it 15 years ago.