"Sadly, there is all sorts of baggage around learning it (at least in the US educational system) that is completely unnecessary and awful and prevents many people from experiencing the pure joy of mathematics. One of the lies I have heard so many people repeat is that everyone is either a “math person” or a "language person” — such a profoundly ignorant and damaging statement. Here is the truth: if you can understand the structure of literature, if you can understand the basic grammar of the English language or any other language, then you can understand the basics of the language of the universe."
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In other words, I do not see how you are dealing with the "baggage" of learning mathematics beyond name-dropping it. In my opinion, the mysticism is the baggage. And then the rest of the blogpost reads like a conventional curriculum within the conventional academic regime with which we associate that baggage.
This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If you didn't intend to come across like an interrogator trying to back an opponent into the corner, then your comment needed to be written quite differently.
> [Mathematics] is the purest and most beautiful of all the intellectual disciplines. It is the universal language, both of human beings and of the universe itself. [...] That doesn’t mean it’s easy — no, mathematics is an incredibly challenging discipline, and there is nothing easy or straightforward about it
I am always, always going to condemn this unnecessary mystification and idealization of mathematics. It's exclusive and misleading.