What is Math?

Hello everybody! I do apologize for the delay, I am definitely behind on the social media thing. My name is Nick, and I work for a tier 1 automotive supplier as a welding engineer/Technical trainer. I recently married and my wife is pregnant with our first kid (kids, twin boys!). As far as education goes, I have been working on completing my BS in pure mathematics for a LONG time. Over the years my job has required me to travel a lot, so there had been several times that I had to give up school for work. On the positive side, I have been all over the world several times, and have spent extensive time in places like Plsen, Czech Republic, Kunshan, China, Quertero Mexico, Istanbul Turkey, and Nagoya, Japan. My last semester will be this Fall, I have MTH 408 (advanced calc) and then I will be done! I will be enrolling in Western Michigan's MBA program starting the winter semester.


The Syllabus seems pretty straight forward to me, I just might still need some help with the social media stuff :) .


The book I have chosen to read first is titled "Journey through Genius."


The question; what is math? Well, my personal opinion, math, in my mind, is a thought process  that is used to problem solve or innovate. I do not know much about the true history of mathematics, but I think that the "pioneers" of math, did math, in abstraction. I do not think they were solving problems, just thinking about "stuff" critically and in a scientific manner. Then, they learned to apply that logic to their real worlds. Again, just my opinion.


Some of the biggest moments or discoveries or milestones in math, in my opinion, would be things like the Riemann Zeta Function (which is still part of one of the millennium problems the "Riemann Hypothesis"), of course the Pythagorean Theorem, the acceptance of zero as a number,  Circle definitions (circumference, diameter, radius, area, etc), and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.


I am truly looking forward to learning the historical perspectives of many of the great mathematicians and possibly tying together many of the disciplines that we have learned!