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Why not? Everyone else here seems to be doing it. I love these posts, because I love maths and the teaching thereof.

Why do I love maths so much? Perhaps because I came back to maths because someone suggested that it was beyond me? 

Maths, funny stuff eh? Is it there at all?  Does it exist? What is maths? And why do people, people who I know can do maths, think that they suck at it? Abstract thought can't be that hard, otherwise we'd never be able to deal with time.

I'm sort of, kind of, in a less-than-the-middle region of maths; one where I grok the essentials but I can't understand the true beauty of maths. But therein lies the essential difference between me and those who are scared of maths — I see a beauty.

A beauty that I don't understand and one that I understand that I'll never understand. Still, I'm not scared. I'm confronted by my own ignorence, bounded above?

Doing higher maths has changed me. I'd like to say that I was no longer a fascile twerp, not true. But I am a much more thoughtful person. You are not allowed to just say stuff, you have to convince me that what you are saying is true.

Plato said that you needed maths to study philosophy. I'm not sure that I agree with him but there is something about maths that is otherworldy. It is there but it isn't.

And it, maths, can't do anything in the real world. Well that's what Hardy said. Funny that, every time you make an online purchase you're using number theory as your security.

I'm a basic man who doesn't want to commit any crimes, I steal maths books without a thought.

That's my maths audit — I wouldn't do that for any drug.