Does anyone here unironically recommend reading The Elements

Start with the Greeks.

>>9070799
Yes, at the very least for historical purposes, plus it's just good bedside reading and pretty aesthetically pleasing to derive a lot of nice, visual results some from basic axioms and clever constructions.

>>9070799

I do, yes.

It's actually fairly easy to read once you really get into it, and the whole thought process is not fundamentally different from how the rest of math actually works. Which is the whole point.

I went through about 20 props about two weeks ago, went up and down them, backwards and forwards, re-constructed my own understandings of them, got the general thrust of the proofs as intended. You should do it if you have a certain historical interest, but that is NOT the only reason. The other point is to know and understand that mathematical truth doesn't change.

>>9070799
Picrelated was initially a russian meme about Perelman, it's not Euclid