I've recently begun reading a book. It's about number theory and the title is "A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory" by Joseph H. Silverman. I have only begun reading the first few pages and I already think differently about mathematics!
I think my background is of importance if I'd want to explain how this sudden change happened, as the issue was nothing very personal. I am from a third world country, and my school life has never been great, but I guess that's true for most people considering how schools nowadays are. Mathematics, to me always felt like something very logical, but figuring out the logical resultant was never fun to me, because I couldn't connect the dots myself; I could only ever know how and why I would connect the dots the way the textbook intended. My school never felt the want to adhere in me the traits to link the dots by myself either.
After ten years in school like this, I had some ideas as to how to tackle this issue of mine myself. One was to fully und