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by bslorence 1958 days ago
The main thing Euclid did for me was to enkindle a love for math as such. Geometry done that way is just so ... beautiful.

Unfortunately I didn't have this experience until I was an undergraduate. For the prior 12 years of formal schooling, math mostly felt like repetitive drudgery with occasional flashes of excitement when I would learn a new technique.