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> One can literally do the entire physics undergrad curriculum using GA without breaking a sweat. Trouble is, you’d have to learn some basic algebraic theory and that’s a hard sell for people who are already afraid of math because “it’s too abstract”.

How many of those people go through an undergraduate physics curriculum?

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Surprisingly many. A lot of my professors tend to see math as a 'necessarily evil' and only teach enough to be able to do the calculations, and this attitude certainly rubbed off on most of my classmates.

In fact, some of them even reject papers for being too rigorous (which does make sense if you think about it).

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