what's the moment math looked cool to you? for me it's

>>9122091
I was the kind of nerdy kid who was always excited by math books as early as middle school but I never really had the brains to do real math at the university level, at least the way it's normally taught

>>9122091
>basically if you added numbers 1-13 you get what's equivalent to multiplying 7x7,

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure 91 isn't equal to 49.

Homological algebra seemed very cool to me when I started learning it.

>>9122107
That doesn't stop me from reading Wikipedia articles and pirating ebooks about it though

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cardinalties

I was mindfucked by factorials. I'd say way back then.

>>9122091
In high school, the math curriculum was built around forming a foundation for calculus which was then taught to some seniors. I wasn't that interested, but I did pretty well. At some point, probably 4th grade or so, I was given a book about codebreaking that glossed over a lot of the math so I was just waiting to learn the relevant theory to start doing radical crypto shit. It never came in high school, but I was pretty sure I wanted to be a cryptographer, so I applied to university as a math major. Math looked cool to me when I realized it's the underpinning of basically all secret communication on the planet.

>be 3rd grader in greece
>have teacher who fits the spank with the ruler 1980s-type stereotype
>super strict
>tore a brown kids notebook in half once
>probably only because he was the only brown but i thought it could happen to me too i couldnt tell the difference
>assigned to memorize the multiplication table up to 10x10 over a break of 20 minutes
>work my ass off in class it might have been assigned the as homework the day before
>teacher comes back
>25 math question assignment
>after some time passes kids have lined up to ask questions
>i line up too but ive finished the entire sheet
>teacher gives me a look and takes the paper away
thats where the foggy memory ends but i think thats what sparked me devoting to math

whenever math stopped being "do 20 problems and memorize these formulas."

basically after I got out of my shitty american high school education

>>9122091
calculus.
it's just great for engineering.
most of algebra is pretty intuitive, so I wouldn't call it "cool", but calculus is just great once you get what it's useful for

When calculus started in high school, before that I was rather uninterested and a poor student but around that time I started to realise the connections between the different kinds of problems we had been given along the years, and I liked the feeling of understanding.