The real kicker is that he sat down and had lunch with me and wanted to talk about Philosophy after he quit Mathematics.
One of the times he showed up in Linear Algebra the professor was writing a complicated proof on the blackboard. This guy gets up and picks the prof's proof apart and cuts it down to five steps with a simple sub proof.
I felt like one of the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, reaching up and touching the Black Object with no clue what it meant.
After that class I felt like getting drunk but it was only 11:30 in the morning.
LOL. That's how I felt with Math. As a matter of fact, I feel that way with my oldest daughter when she starts talking string theory and quantum physics and computer geek at me. I just stare at her. Can't figure out where she came from.
My son is having trouble with a high school geometry teacher right now because the way he learned math, using Saxon Math, is different than what she teaches. She actually told him that if he did the problems his way instead of hers, she would mark it wrong even if the answer is right. So one day it was his turn to do a problem at the board, does it his way, and she tries to show the class how this student did it wrong and can't get the right answer using this method....oops. I'm beginning to wonder how much this has to do with his 15 week grade...