What if I just really like math and want to advance my education a bit and I don't give a shit about money or contributing to society?
How do I just game an institution into letting me just complete a master's in pure math and then.. just stop there? Nobody wants that sort of thing from what I understand but that's about where I care to take the business, for myself. That way, I'm just good enough so as to not have a pretense of being a crank!
>>9070896
Why not just self-teach yourself the math? Why do you need some bureaucratic institution to spoonfeed it to you?
>>9070917
I'm already doing that, of course. I just also like the idea of a modicum of non-crank respectability without putting in phd tier work.
>>9070935
Earn respect by contributing to the field, then.
You just sound like you want to call yourself a mathematician without actually becoming a mathematician.