What specifically do you not like about it. And I don’t just mean “it’s too hard”, what specifically is hard?

I feel like most people would like mathematics, but the education system failed them, teaching in a way that’s not enjoyable.

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    Who cares about solving lost and unprovable theorems — how do these help anyone?

    They do have a way of eventually coming up in something practical. It might take a long time though, that’s fair.

    spoiler since I want to be sensitive to you not liking math, but I have comments

    How can 0.999… and 1 be exactly the same number?

    I mean, you can define things a different way, but it gets messy fast. The basic idea is that there shouldn’t be any gaps between the numbers - so a line is as unbroken as it looks. Without making all kinds of other adjustments 0.999… would break that, since there’s no way to add further decimals in between it and 1.

    As for the constants, yeah, it’s weird. A lot of math is weird; the universe wasn’t built for us.