It is common knowledge that math is hard. But it's not common knowledge that art is just as hard. Did you ever try to compose a song like Beethoven, to paint a picture like Van Gogh or to rap like eminem? Probably you did, but did you succeed? If you don't have affinity with a task, you will find it hard to invest your capacities to finally get a good result. It's the same with mathematics.
So why do people see mathematics as special? It is not because it is exceptionally hard. It is because of two reason.
1. We can determine the correctness of a piece of mathematical work.
2. Society forces everybody to learn mathematics to a much higher degree than art.
So what can we do about these points? In regard to the first, I'd say that it's an advantage of mathematics and other areas should take it as an ideal.
The second reason is a consequence of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics to predict nature. There is nothing I can say about this besides observing it.
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"Art is hard!"
It is common knowledge that math is hard. But it's not common knowledge that art is just as hard. Did you ever try to compose a song like Beethoven, to paint a picture like Van Gogh or to rap like eminem? Probably you did, but did you succeed? If you don't have affinity with a task, you will find it hard to invest your capacities to finally get a good result. It's the same with mathematics.
So why do people see mathematics as special? It is not because it is exceptionally hard. It is because of two reason.
1. We can determine the correctness of a piece of mathematical work.
2. Society forces everybody to learn mathematics to a much higher degree than art.
So what can we do about these points? In regard to the first, I'd say that it's an advantage of mathematics and other areas should take it as an ideal.
The second reason is a consequence of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics to predict nature. There is nothing I can say about this besides observing it.