Comment by the_af
1 day ago
A majority? I doubt it, simply because the majority doesn't know what math is at all.
At university level introductory calculus, the person teaching class had to reassure students that math wasn't entirely arithmetic or adding up numbers. He did this because it's a common misunderstanding.
So, you disagree with my comment because you think I'm right?
Those students he was reassuring, did they think math was nothing but proofs?
Haha, sort of. I guess I disagree with your claim the majority of people think math is "more" than proof. The majority of people think it's less: they think it's doing high school arithmetic. Most people don't know what a proof or a theorem are. They think math is doing calculations with numbers.