[cbdumas]

> It's like math was forced to run on assembly language despite there were more high-level languages available and more apt for the job.

I'm not a mathematician but that doesn't sound right to me. Most math I did in school is comprised concepts many many layers of abstraction away from its foundations. What did you mean by this?

[storus]

My math classes were theorem, lemma, proof all day long, no conceptualization, no explanation; low-level formulas down to axioms. Sink or swim, figure it out on your own or fail.