This thread is my favorite thread ever. I am currently getting my Masters in Mathematics, and I love it. There are some misunderstandings though. For example, while calculus is a very important area of math, it is just one of many areas of math that you can go into. another direction is Linear Algebra, which is a lot of work with matrices. And one use of matrices is 3d animation. If you look at a 3d shape as a set of points, then matrix multiplication will tell you how it will look as you spin it around.

The funny thing though is everyone thinks math is cold and hard, 2+2=4 and there is no question. But math is really setting up a scenario where you can make up the rules, but then you have to follow them. So if I'm working is a set of numbers where I specifically define 2+2 to be 0, then I can figure out other properties from there. I'm simplifying a lot of this because it gets really weird. If you have any questions about math, I'm happy to talk about it.

Now I'm tempted to show you what my homework looks like, just to see your reactions.