[bee_rider]

I think this is basically true but I don’t know if it is good advice for most people. In the sense that the math that most people are exposed to up until the first couple years of college is the practical stuff. (Maybe I’m showing my age here, are there, like, Math Influencers now that are sending the bright kids into the really abstract stuff?)

In most cases a kid that aces all their math classes will make a great engineer or physicist, which is a good outcome for everybody involved.

And, besides, all the math I use was invented by the 1950’s. At the time, I’m sure they thought some of it was useless. Somebody has to cook up the stuff for the engineers of 2100.