LOL
"Not sure what images to paste. So here is my cat"
It worked!
Of all your posts, the first I clicked on was the CAT post!
Thanks to @agmoore for leading me to the math owl.
I'm angry and bitter sometimes about having an INTEREST in math but not the APTITUDE
So I will stop right there, and go back and try to read your post.
I did read (and review!) a physics book recently.
The Magick of Physics by Felix Flicker is well-written, endearing, engaging, and maddening
But it's a long review, despite my leaving out sooooo many aspects the book addresses.
I'm still mad about the chapter on the three towers (statistical probability)...
Most of all, I'm upset that I had to read read RE-READ and read again and still I cannot summarize or explain much of anything, except possibly a wee bit about monopoles, but that's only because I watched Flicker's you-tube video (many times) and kinda/sorta believe ....
But he says "anyone" can learn physics, and if he weren't so cute, earnest, and endearing, I'd be mad at him for reinforcing that myth, that ANYONE, with motive and persistence and practice, can learn anything.
Kurt Vonnegut had a more useful (to me) view on that - that it is not about mastery, or even getting really good at something (e.g. learning a musical instrument) - just, the PROCESS is good. Yeah, yeah, we all know that...
Still. I want to achieve more than mediocrity, and I want to KNOW MATH, if only at the most rudimentary levels.