[biddlesby]

I can sympathise with you on that. The whole of pure mathematics seems to be about making definitions and seeing what weird places and surprising connections you get. This isn't as exciting as seeing how mathematics can describe and predict phenomena in the real world.

[ubercow13]

Analysis is all about explaining calculus, one of the most useful and practical real-world mathematical fields. So you should find it pretty exciting.

[sukilot]

Almost none of pure mathematics is like that.

But the normies obsess over the pathological cases, often because they are described in misleading mathematically incorrect terms (such as Banach Tarski).

It's kind of similar to law, where people love misreading judicial opinions to "prove" that law is crazy.