Reddit reviews Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems (Princeton Puzzlers)
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> You know, my first instinct was to say "fuck that noise, you need to do stuff that isn't in sausage-fest-ville,"
To be honest, most of my hobbies aren't so much in sausage-fest-ville but instead in all-by-myself-opolis.
>Also, by choosing what you're doing carefully, you can select for potential partners that are the kind of people you're interested in.
That's been my reasoning for a while now. Hasn't played out, but I honestly haven't been serious about dating until recently. I didn't want distractions in grad school.
>I basically had a really shit experience in school with math. Shitty teachers, ADD, and parents who are shitty at helping me with homework all pretty much ruined math for me. While my English skills were pegging the meter by junior high, I'm still barely able to take the lowest-level algebra class at my community college.
The thing to remember is that high school and low-level college math class resemble actual mathematics in roughly the same way spelling resembles literature. This isn't meant to be discouraging. You could easily study literature without being able to spell "sesquicentennial." Similarly, it might come in handy to know what a polynomial is, but actually factoring a given polynomial is something I only do when teaching students. (Who will in turn never use that skill again. The circle of bullshit.)
Actual mathematics is a very diverse field of study, but probably the friendliest place to start is, as mentioned above, graph theory. Graph theory is the study of the properties of networks of interconnected nodes. Think computer networks. My introduction to the subject was actually this neat book on chess problems.
If you wanted to get more into math that looks like high school math, Numberphile is a good place to start, like /u/drs43821 mentioned.
>But I feel like I'm so far behind that there's just no catching up.
I know a guy with a PhD in math who failed calculus three times. There is no such thing as too far behind.