A Defense of Pure Mathematics: Intuition Cannot Guide the Mind
We need to defend pure mathematics against its most treacherous adversary: intuition. Our age is already drowning in idealism, fantasy, and false certainties, handed down from a generation of dreamers who mistook desire for truth. Is it any wonder, then, that intuition has become the fashionable crutch today? But intuition deceives. It intoxicates. It flatters the mind into believing it has understood when it has only guessed. Only axioms, only proof, only the sovereign law of pure mathematics can stand against the chaos of feeling. Announcements: City Tutoring begins new classes on September 7th. And beyond that, a great change is coming. What precisely? For now, I leave you in suspense.
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