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Why Mathematics Fails

Disclaimer: Before you start to think that this is just an angry rant on mathematics from someone who probably failed at it all his life, I assure you that it’s simply not true. Having a graduate degree from Computer Science and Engineering, I did my fair share of maths and passed through all of that. So to think that I have a grudge against Mathematics is objectively untrue. This article is much deeper than that. In this 21 st century where the whole world is obsessed with technology, mathematics has literally become the most widely used language in many fields of studies and higher education. To put it simply--maths is considered as the new universal language. And this has elevated mathematics from being just another tool for understanding the World (which all subjects actually are) to a new world view altogether. In many educated people’s minds, mathematics has literally become ingrained as the ‘correct’ way to think and approach reality. And coupled with th