[Tycho]

What do people think of this idea. Let's say you want to casually improve your maths knowledge in your spare time. Let's say you find it frustrating how you generally can't just google concepts as you come across them, because the material is usually presented so obtusely and you need to be able to ask questions and have things explained in different ways. Let's say you live in a university town. Let's say you pay a graduate student to just spend a couple hours per week answering your questions, on whatever concepts you're having difficulty with.

Do you think this would work well? Obviously it costs money but I'm guessing the rate wouldn't need to be too high to make it worth their time. They wouldn't need to do any preparation, just have a good grounding in the language of maths.

[ctchocula]

That was the idea with this business [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12268362