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>There are plenty of fields of mathematics that are so utterly boring
>that you have to wonder why anybody studies them
> - set theory, number theory, category theory, etc.)
And this exactly supports the author's ideas in
>http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
- it is not that the set theory is boring,
rather the way it is presented in most of textbooks is.
>I didn't say that set theory is not *important*. I said it is not
>*interesting*. Certainly not to me, anyway.
>The obvious stuff is obvious, and the non-obvious stuff is all tedious
>riddle-like splitting of hairs rather than interesting insights.
> If there *is* some kind of connection between set theory and
arithmetic, it is highly non-obvious.
Check out Knuth's book of "How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure
Mathematics and Found Total Happiness". Unfortunately, it's not so easy
to find it in UK.
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