Hello and welcome to the Magic Internet Math podcast.
It's just me today.
How's it going, everybody?
I figured I would start doing some solo, you know, some solo podcasts here.
We got the main one with Rob.
We can't really do a lot of learning without Rob.
He is the learning facilitator.
we plug into his brain, we prompt it, we get his output.
And, you know, a lot of what I want to do on this podcast
is just so dependent on his presence, his existence.
So, you know, but I still want to continue to push certain conversations here
even when Rob's not available because Rob is a real job.
and he's a busy man.
So, you know, one of the things I'm going to do today in this episode,
I'm going to, you know, I haven't spent a lot of time shilling the site.
It's the number one thing I get made fun of by my peers
is I'm so bad at shilling the site.
So I'm just going to take an episode and I'm going to do it.
and I'm going to talk about really, I guess,
what I am thinking about for 15 hours a day as I build this thing
and really, oh, you know, what am I trying to do in terms of teaching,
you know, teaching math to the kinds of people
who are listening to this podcast like yourself.
So let me quickly just talk about the status of the site.
So this is what technically episode five, um, I might classify it as a special episode,
you know, just cause I'm doing it myself, but, um, I've got this site, it's called magic
internet math.com and I started building it at the end of December.
And so it's been three months, one quarter and it has for free.
It's got a hundred courses on it.
It's got some games.
I'll talk about all these things.
I'll dig in a little bit.
But like it's got a hundred courses.
It's got games.
And it's got a few YouTube series that I've made, mostly as proof of concept.
And I guess I kind of want to like just talk a little bit about those and explain why they exist.
And, you know, so I got a hundred courses.
is a large variety of, based on level and subject, when it comes to math and then economics
and then some philosophy, some literature.
You know, it ends up that, you know, this whole thing started because Rob was showing
me what I could do with Cloud Code in December.
And he was showing me with my own book.
And he was like, look what we can do with your book.
and as I was watching it, I wasn't seeing what could be done with my book.
I was seeing what could be done with any math book.
And my eyes really lit up and I just kind of went nuts putting math books in,
you know, I saw I could convert a math book into these really cool,
really helpful classes with quizzes and interactive modules.
So I started doing it like just nonstop.
I think I was putting five, six classes a day at some point.
And, you know, I was going, I really wanted my favorite math books to be turned into classes.
I wanted to make my favorite math books accessible to people.
So we're talking in calculus, we're talking apostle.
you know for abstract algebra we're talking
Dummett and Foot talking
Fraley you know I have
Hungerford, Serge Lang
I've got now you know in the algebra category
probably so linear algebra we're talking Strang
and Hoffman Koons.
You know, I don't expect these names to mean much to the people here.
It doesn't really matter.
But I want you to know that most of the courses on the site
do mean something to me.
They're based on books that mean a lot to me.
And, you know, I've gotten a lot out of it.
And I kind of have a decent understanding
of where each of these things would fit in a basic, you know, in a curriculum.
So it's like if you're studying linear algebra,
I could tell you exactly why and when you should study Strang's book versus
Hoffman Kuhn's versus one of the other ones.
You know, if you're studying abstract algebra, I could, you know,
tell you exactly where to begin and then when to go, you know,
depending on what you're interested in,
whether or not you go the direction of Dumbfoot or Arton or et cetera.
So like, you know, I wanted this variety.
I wanted a number theory.
I wanted all of these topics and these books that I'd been through.
John Stilwell, this author who's done so many great books,
I wanted all of these books in classes on the site.
So I ended up having a really nice set of math courses,
like the kind of thing that, you know,
if you ever found yourself bunkered somewhere for a couple of years,
you could learn a lot of math now on the site.
and then it occurred to me.
So another portion of my favorite books are then beginner books.
So Serge Lang has a beginner, really it's a beginner math book.
And so I based the algebra class, the beginner's algebra class off of it.
And then this whole beginner series that I'm going to be building is going to be based off of that.
and then there's a one of my favorite all-time books.
It's called Calculus as a Liberal Art.
And I couldn't wait to get that on the site
and I can't wait to be teaching,
like really teaching all of,
like these books really inspired me
to teach math as a liberal art.
And that's really the focus.
We talked a lot about it on that first episode
called the Genesis episode.
But I have been thinking about this
and working on this for probably the better part of the last 15 years.
You know, at some point in my career,
and maybe I'll just get in a little bit of my personal,
like how did I get here?
I was an actuary.
I'm not going to get into my high school years or anything like that.
I'm just going to talk about my professional life
and how I sort of became somebody who would care today about teaching math.
You know, I was an actuary.
I was very frustrated.
I was such an idealist and I like literally 0% of my peers had any,
I had shared a single ideal.
They were like nothing but mercenaries.
And I,
what I saw was just people with the title of actuary,
just abusing,
like abusing the lack of knowledge of normies,
essentially to pull a paycheck,
total intimidation,
validation, just total obfuscation. And, you know, these people, their whole goal in life is
just to be asked one more day to do their report. And it disgusted me. I didn't walk away from that
saying, oh, let me now teach. You know, it's just something that really left a bad taste in my mouth.
And I ended up changing careers and I became a quantitative strategist. You know, people would
call that a quant, but like, I really didn't have the math background to be a quant. Um, you know,
I applied for a lot of jobs, quants, and they kind of laughed at me. They're like, oh, you're just one
of those actuaries. You just know how to do, you know, basic five functions and, you know, you,
you know some probability and that's nice, but you don't know the math. You don't really know the math.
And then, so I said, you know what? I can learn the math, whatever that, whatever it is, I can learn
it. So what is it? And, um, you know, it ended up, we were talking like 2003, 2004. I really went on
this road to being a quant. I was determined to be a quant, um, because I really wanted to work
with people who I thought were just cared about learning care, you know, just have shared some
basic ideals that I had. So it was now, um, self, so I went from, you know, studying for exams,
probably 40 to 50 hours a week to just studying math 40 to 50 hours a week, you know, on top of
my job. So, you know, what did that look like? It's like finding any analysis textbook, any
calculus textbook, any differential equations textbook, and then just going for it. So,
you know, in 2003, 2004, I think I've talked about this before, but I should just kind of
mention it and talk about it here. It's a really interesting time. You couldn't really get math
textbooks. It wasn't like it is now. You know, now you go on Amazon or you just Google and there's
PDF or you just go on magicinternetmath.com and there is a pretty well-organized course already
laid out for various textbooks. But in 2003, man, it was hard. You really didn't have, like,
you could go to Barnes and Noble.
I don't know if anybody here has been to Barnes and Noble looking for a math
book, but you know,
the type of math books they have at Barnes and Noble are like, you know,
bestsellers. You know what I mean? They're not,
you're not getting a differential equations textbook or an analysis textbook
or anything like that. You know, you're going to get something like why,
you know, the number,
the number pie is so beautiful or the golden ratio,
or you're going to get some kind of like, you know,
very appeal to normie
bestseller type book.
Okay so Barnes Noble was out And you know we had borders They didn really have much there either So what a man to do in 2003 to you know even get himself a math book
because he's desperate to prove that he could learn the math to do the job he wants?
So what I used to do was, you know, I'm in Philly,
and I used to go down to the University of Pennsylvania bookstore.
and you know back then you could pretend to be a student and buy textbooks you didn't really you
could get away with it without showing a student id or anything like that you just go to their
bookstore you go to the back where they have all the textbooks and you find the one you want and
you just buy it so this is how i bought a few of my first textbooks and this is what got me going
for the first couple of years.
You know, I remember it quite fondly.
Differential Equations, I got this big,
I just got the biggest, nicest looking artsy book I could get.
It was by Cullen and Zill.
And I still have it.
It's great.
And it turns out my daughter, who's a math major,
used that textbook for her Differential Equations class,
which is pretty dang cool.
I was pretty excited to see that.
um you know she had the paperback book and i was like oh you got the paperback i got the hardcover
um and i just remember like i used to ride the septa train septa southeast pennsylvania
train it's like the train regional rail system in philly and i would ride it to work
and i would sit there with my textbook on my lap and my notebook on my lap and sit there and
work um and so whatever you know calculus differential equations linear algebra this is
what I was obsessed with. So for linear algebra, I mentioned Strang. That's who I was reading.
I bought the Strang. And the reason I guess the other interesting thing that happened around 2003
or 2004 was MIT OpenCourse software. MIT OpenCourse software was playing live lectures out of MIT.
and Gilbert Strang, I think was the,
Gilbert Strang's linear algebra class
was like the kind of the flagship course
being put out of that.
So naturally I would get his book.
It was so good.
I can't recommend it enough.
If you're trying to learn linear algebra,
Gilbert Strang's,
I think it's just called linear algebra.
There's linear algebra in applications,
but I think it's just called linear algebra
with the blue cover.
Check that book out or just go to my site.
I guess. Um, so there was that, there was a Sheldon Axler's linear algebra done right. Um,
you know, I was just, I was able to pick up these books and I spent the next few years
learning them. And then that was, that was that. And next thing you knew,
next thing you knew I was, um, you know, working as a quant, um, pretty amazing.
so that was like that was the mid-2000s and I did that I did that career faithfully until
it ended in 2024 and um you know ever since you know along the way it's just been I don't know if
there was really a period of time where I wasn't studying um studying something so then the
interesting thing that happened along the way, which I've talked about before is, you know,
when I discovered Bitcoin and I was in the process of verifying it, I got to the SECP256K1
GitHub and had a panic attack because, you know, once again, I'm the idealist who believed all the
pleb slop about don't trust, verify. I'm like, yeah, of course not. Who would do that? Right.
and so I'm verifying
verifying I'm going through mastering
Bitcoin programming
Bitcoin I think there's a Bitcoin
programming book
also and so
you know I was really kind of getting the
protocol down but again I went
to that cryptography website and it just
made no sense
it was like wingdings
you know you go to like
go to a website and it's just like
symbols and
And John Mulaney had some joke about it being like, you know, wingdings and swastikas.
And like, you know, it just made no sense.
So I had a panic attack and I was like, what do I do?
Well, what do I always do when I have a panic attack?
I immediately say, well, you know what?
I have the aptitude probably to learn this.
I've learned harder things in my life probably.
All right, what does it take?
So I went out and got this cryptography book.
It was published by Springer, so I had assumed it would be mathematical in nature.
Springer is a big math.
Like a lot of the math books you buy would be published by Springer.
Don't know who they're owned by.
Probably Chiseline Maxwell's dad.
But regardless, I got that book.
And oh, my God.
Like that book was basically number theory and abstract algebra, like 101 in teaching you how cryptography works.
And holy crap, I was loving, loving that book.
I remember going to Hawaii with the family and, you know, the flight every morning, waking up on the freaking beach, studying that book every day, every day, every day.
couldn't get enough of it. So good. So then that book really opened up just a, it just opened up
like, oh my God, you know, I could study this shit for the rest of my life if I really, really
wanted to. But then I also realized I had to go now and learn abstract algebra formally and learn
number theory formally. So now in the age of the internet, you ask yourself, oh, what book do I get?
What do I do?
Well, number theory was easy because there's only one really recommended
elementary number theory book.
It's by Kenneth Rosen, and it was good, and I do recommend it.
Haven't made a class out of that book yet, ironically, but I probably will.
I feel like there were better books for teaching so far
that would look better on a website.
Anyhow, for abstract algebra, I don't know what the hell I was doing.
So, you know, the one takeaway I got from the cryptography book was like Galois groups and Galois theory.
And then I was going to have to understand that.
By the way, back at the time I was calling it Galois and I was corrected by this Ph.D. kid who works for me.
He's like, I don't know how to tell you this, but it's actually it's actually Galois.
I was like, I knew that. I was just seeing if you knew.
So anyhow, so you go, I look at all these abstract algebra books and they all have like, they all, you get to like the final chapter and they say, oh, this is now Galois theory.
I'm like, oh God.
All right.
I guess I got to get to the final chapter of every one of these books.
And, you know, it started in 2023.
First one was Frehley.
The second one were these two Chinese guys.
I don't even know their names.
I could, I'm on, I'm, I am currently now on Goodman.
And it's my eighth abstract algebra textbook.
And I'm only now really starting to get some things that I wanted to get.
But it does seem fluid enough to teach because, you know, I really hit a stride in being able to understand and explain what's going on in Bitcoin's elliptic curve and why it's important for us to understand that.
And I think that's just come from every single morning for the last three years studying abstract algebra in some way, shape or form.
And it just so happens now my daughter is studying it as a math major.
And so we talk about it almost every day.
We watch YouTube videos of different professors teaching it.
And this is now like, you know, it's very, very embedded.
So that was just a little bit of like the journey and how I got here.
I've always been a self-learner, right?
But I think it's just like the disappointment in people really got me to think about math a lot.
because one of my biggest disappointments in people in life is the way they view math.
And this is like, I saw this a lot, you know, with my kids and my kids' friends and their parents
and going to parent meetings at their schools and seeing the attitudes.
And it's always, I mean, it's not just my kids.
It's not my kids, really.
It's everybody else, like outside of my family, you know, including mostly like my parents
And anybody, man, anybody who's ever been successful, it's like in the rule book that you have to have this attitude that you don't study, you don't study math unless there's some obvious reason to do so.
So here's the other part, I guess, of my personal life is my father is a PhD, his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
And, you know, he was an electrical engineer.
So it was electrical engineering.
He was actually an aerospace engineer, and he put satellites in space.
That's what he did for his whole career.
You know, almost flirted with regret about not going into finance,
but he'll be the first to tell you.
Like his attitude was just like, fuck that.
That's for losers.
I'm like, I'm right here.
I can hear you.
He's like, well, not you, but, you know,
I would have felt like a loser if I had done that. And, you know, I get my values a lot from my dad.
You know, my dad just, he would have felt like a loser doing that as a mercenary and doing anything.
You know, he just was, you know, my dad was also a fucking stupid idealist who like listened to JFK
talk about going to the moon. And he was like, yes, yes. And then, you know, he's sitting there
in, you know, 2010 trying to retire.
It's like, oh, what the hell did I do?
You know, this field stinks.
But, you know, he had his values and he stuck to them
and he stuck with the career.
You know, I had different values.
I guess I thought I could go into finance
and still be an idealist about it.
And I really was dead wrong What can I say But like you know all of this disappointment in people even so the mathematicians disappointed me
all of the other
dipshits disappointed me
and so I just sat there
and continued to think and think and think
about how would I do this
how would I do this if I was
given the magic wand and I can
teach math to people
how would it happen and that's you know
I have young kids and I'm thinking a lot about what do I want for them and what do they need?
And at some point I discovered the Waldorf school and, um, it made it just so much sense
for me to send, send my kids there. And, um, you know, I could talk a little bit about the
Waldorf school, but it's, it's, um, it's largely based on the teachings of Rural Steiner who on,
you know, on my website now I have, I think I have 12 classes of basically 12 Rudolph Steiner's books.
And I'm going to have a lot more. I probably want to have a hundred books just of Rudolph Steiner's
on my site. And the reason I, and then I figured out the reason I have that on there is because
now when I write, right, when I have the AI tools, write the math books, I can actually tell it,
But, you know, I want you to think about what Rudolf Steiner, even though he died in 1900 or whenever it was early 1900s, you know, where would he be right now?
Where would he be if he was alive?
What would he be?
And it turns out it's very relevant.
It's very, very, very relevant.
It's very relevant that my kids were educated there.
I was told over and over again, you think your daughter is going to study math?
Don't send her to a Waldorf school.
Are you crazy?
and I was forming this worldview about math being taught as a liberal art.
Now, they don't do that there, but they focus on liberal arts,
and I had this kind of gamble that, you know what?
I want my child to have a great liberal arts education,
and I can handle the math.
I can handle the math side.
I don't need them for that.
And it turned out that they had some very special,
there's some very talented math teachers there just I think by by luck and it all really worked
out well now my oldest daughter is a math major she's a junior she's like insanely talented very
good to the point where I had I knew I had to build this I had to build this math academy so
that she'd have somewhere to work and um you know without sending her to the belly of the beast
you know and like having cultivated this talent just to have her go work for work for the enemy
um you know that didn't sit well with me at all like imagine imagine
you know making this bet and developing this human this humanities curriculum and putting
child through it only to have them go implement sociopathic algorithms for google or tesla or
wherever, you know? So, um, that, you know, that doesn't sit very well with me. So it, it occurred
to me, I had to build this math academy. Um, I want it to exist. I don't think it, I don't think
anything like it does. And I believe my kids will have the ability to really bring it to life when
it's their turn to do so. So that was pretty, that was a long way. That was a long way to,
you know, sort of get to now. But so I have a bunch of classes. I got skill building games.
They're fun. They're supposed to be fun and you're supposed to get points and you're supposed
to care about getting points and you take, you take quizzes on the class and get points. And,
And, you know, at some point, at some juncture, the points will matter.
The points will give you, will grant you eligibility into classes that I'll offer, things like that.
But, you know, as it stands today, they don't matter for anything.
But, you know, you can get on that site.
You can log in with an email or your end pub.
and you can start taking quizzes and playing games and getting points.
I should say the majority of what's on there is available for free,
but there is now a subscriber option.
So you can subscribe for $5 a month.
I consider that quite a bargain.
even with what I have on the site now.
And I'll talk about what I have on there now
for subscriber-only content.
But it's $5 a month, $50 a year.
And if you know me and we have a relationship,
I'm offering lifetime subscriptions
to a very limited amount of people.
The reason it's limited is because
you'd be people I care about and I don't want it.
I need the Dunbar number to be within what I can deliver,
what I know I could deliver that value to.
So that's currently 250,000 sats for lifetime membership so far.
Six of you guys have gone for it, and I really appreciate it.
And your feedback is really what's pushing the site forward now.
But, you know, if you don't want to do that,
you could just do $5 a month.
And, you know, the first goal for me is to actually hire a maintainer and to somebody who can actually make sure the site will live long enough to deliver value for a long time.
You know, the AI is very powerful.
Clock code is very powerful.
But, man, I'm pretty sure if I don't get a real live person in charge of this thing, I don't know.
I don't know what the longevity is, to be honest.
So I really want to get, you know, you get a few thousand people sign up for the site, I can hire a dev to actually maintain it.
That's really my, it's like one of my big goals.
So what is the subscriber only content?
I'm really excited about it.
So let me first say, okay, so I had the classes, I had the games.
I mentioned the YouTube videos.
So let me tell you what's available publicly for anybody right now.
I really was doing these proof of concept YouTube videos.
I wanted to prove to myself I could actually use the AI
and make a high quality learning experience on YouTube.
For what it's worth, I subscribe to so many channels.
I pay $5 a month to a lot of people.
And you know what?
I think I have a good sense of what that's worth.
and a lot of the sites I subscribe to are very good.
It's usually those people doing classes.
So I was really kind of nervous
about just creating an AI-based class.
But I feel very good about what I've created.
So I created a series on Michael Saylor's MIT dissertation,
not because I think that's an important thing.
It just was a funny thing I was thinking about that week,
the week I happened to want to do a proof of concept.
And it was, not to get too off track, but that was the week Saylor went on Danny Knowles' podcast and just eviscerated him for kind of, Danny was being very pleb sloppy and, you know, in my opinion, kind of ignorant.
And Saylor just teed off on him.
And I made a joke at the time.
I said, you know what?
Maybe Danny should just read Michael Saylor's dissertation.
And if you're a podcaster, you should read Michael Saylor's dissertation.
And then you can like pull some goodwill hunting shit on him.
If he ever tries to yell at you, you'll be like, hey, guess what?
I know I read your dissertation.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
All right.
I know how much you value X, Y, Z.
And then you can just go over the top and body slam him.
So that was the idea I was throwing around.
And I said, you know what?
what if I just bring that dissertation in as a class on the website? And it is. And then I said,
huh, what if I made a YouTube video out of this? And I did. And that was the first one. And it was
really actually quite good. I was surprised that what I found out was possible.
So, you know, I would recommend checking it out. After that, I got the bright idea that I can bring
and fictional works. And I brought in the book Atlas Shrugged and I went through the course it
made on my site and I was so impressed. It was so good. It was such a great experience to relive
the book in this format. And I thought it just did, I thought the class did a great job. And I said,
okay, guess what? This now big opportunity here. We're going to make a YouTube video of this and
We're going to see how that looks.
And, you know, aside from a few foibles in the voiceover type stuff,
you know, Reardon, you know,
pronouncing just those pronunciations of some characters' names,
it came out really good.
And I think anybody who likes that book
or anybody who wants to kind of know why people talk about that book
and they don't want to read an 1,100-page book,
I think it's a very good Cliff Notes.
it's like two hours to go through the whole thing, you know?
So amazing.
And then, okay, so then I got really, I started getting bold and said,
hmm, okay, one of my favorite math books of all time.
It's not really a math book.
It's called Men of Mathematics, and it's a book of biographies
of 30 mathematicians, you know, the stories of Gauss and Euler
and Laplace and Pascal and Leibniz and all of these really, you know, incredible and tragic,
a lot of times, Archimedes. And, you know, I love the stories of these people. And as a father
of a math major, I think it's so important for a student to be well-versed in the history because
you, you know, you need to place yourself amongst these people. You need to say, well, who, you know,
Which one, you know, who do I relate to?
Which circumstances relate to me?
You know which what kind of mathematician am I going to be in society What the biography going to sound like about me So I love math history and there a lot of it on my site a lot of it And so I decided to make
a YouTube series of the Men of Mathematics book by Eric Temple Bell. And 30 episodes, it is so good.
And these things are not, they're like eight or nine minutes long each one. So it's a perfect
length, you know, and so right now those are hosted on Fountain.
They're going to end up on YouTube.
Okay.
The next thing I did, again, in the YouTube space, okay,
in the site space was after the first episode of the podcast,
Rob mentioned a Bitcoin talk forum post about why Satoshi chose SECP256K1.
And I had this, once again, I had another idea.
It just came, you know, Rob says things and then I get these ideas.
And this is just how it works.
So I get this idea like, wait a second, what if I just,
what if I could take all of Satoshi's 546 Bitcoin talk forum posts
and make that into a class on the site?
Boom, that's done.
That was incredible.
And then I said, oh, okay, YouTube video time.
we're going to see if I can make a YouTube series on this.
And guess what?
It got done.
Incredible.
Okay.
So now I'm starting to collect these YouTube series that are pretty cool,
pretty informative, and I'm starting to get good at making them.
And so after the first, after that episode, I had another idea,
which is what I want to teach cryptography, but I want to,
I want to go from arithmetic to cryptography.
And so I created that sort of flagship YouTube video series that I'm guessing a lot of people have seen.
Up Daily picked it up and shared the first episode with the link.
If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out.
So this is like the last free, this is the last freebie on the site.
But I want it to showcase what I do.
So what I think it showcases is the spirit of teaching as a sort of, you know, you're the student on a hero's journey.
And it's like almost a Greek heroic epic that you're learning inside of.
And we go from modular arithmetic to groups to, you know, to the Euclidean algorithm to signatures to Frost, you know, and music.
So that sort of concludes the journey of the free stuff I created to really show my proof of work here.
Now, what's on the website now that's subscriber only, what I created was a basic high school algebra class.
And it's 16.
There's a study guide.
It's about 100 pages with a lot of exercises.
It's framed as a Greek heroic epic.
And it takes you from basic arithmetic all the way to solving systems of equations to functions.
And it's amazing. It's really great. And so now that's on the subscriber only section.
And pretty much everything I create from here on out is going to be subscriber only.
And I expect there to be a lot in the next few months.
OK, so that was that. And then I guess the only other thing I'm going to add is that is this idea of Rudolf Steiner.
So this idea of Rudolf Steiner, I think the next thing I'm going to throw on the subscriber only section of the site.
Sorry if you guys aren't subscribed.
But I'll also have like free weeks marketing shit like that out there.
Anyway, there's a paper I created.
I call them study guides because people get triggered if I say I wrote books with AI.
So I'm writing study guides with AI.
and instead of saying written by brian hirshfield it says i think it says imagined by brian hirshfield
um i didn't write these books the ai wrote them but you know what these are really now
we're starting to get very original in the ability to bring topics and ideas together
And this one book that got written, it's called The Four Proofs. And it goes Euclid, Gauss, Steiner, Satoshi. And it's all about their different ways of explaining proofs.
and so if you know Euclid was he was the great Greek mathematician who you know like Archimedes
was considered the greatest mathematician ever he came up with things Euclid was the one who
wrote the proofs he was the one that proved everything so he was sort of like the scholar who
provided the rigor that really was the foundation for the next 1800 years
without him, it's probably 4,000 years
before somebody like Fermat or Gauss comes along.
But Euclid really lays this foundation down,
proves all these things like parallel lines don't intersect,
things like these.
He proves these axioms.
He has this book of elements and 15,
I don't even know how many volumes there are, but guess what?
They're all on the website.
Euclid's Elements is on my website as a course.
So you have Euclid who was like the guy that proved these things.
You have Gauss who like he proved a lot of things too,
but the point of where it comes up in the book is that, you know,
he had the proofs already in his head before he wrote them.
Okay, so like a proof can be just something you know.
You can know it and not actually, you know.
So like basically the moment Gauss sat down with his pen and pencil,
the proof already existed, okay?
And this then leads to Steiner because Steiner basically says, yes,
and it's like there's a physical world and there's an invisible world.
There's a thinking world.
Like, and even in the thinking world, there are very real things in the invisible world.
I think he called it the spiritual realm, but he also called it the invisible realm.
And he used to say that you can prove things in the spiritual realm, but like, you know, man hasn't quite evolved yet to be able to do it, but they will.
And it's definitely possible.
And there is a rigorous construct in the spiritual realm to prove things.
And the reason why that's so interesting to me, and it's so interesting that this would be put in this book, is because the fourth person was Satoshi, who really showed us how to prove things in the invisible realm.
In the world of Bitcoin, it is an invisible realm.
You know, it's not a spiritual realm, but it's the thing that when people say they don't like it, the reason is it's invisible.
I can't see it. I can't touch it. You know, I like my shiny rocks. I like to see it. I like to know, you know, even though they love numbers on a screen, their brokerage accounts, which is an invisible realm too. There's no proof there, right? There's proof here.
And so you have this lineage of proofs and provers, and Steiner really is just the one that—he's sort of the straw that stirs the whole drink because he can connect.
He can basically provide a construct that puts Satoshi on the same level as Gauss and Euclid in terms of how do you know what we know, which is, as you guys know, that's the thing I focus on the most, right?
which is just how do you know that you know what you know?
So that's, you know, these are examples of things you're going to start to see on my website.
And those are the, these are going to be the basis of lectures and classes that I'm going to do.
And, you know, you have lifetime members and you have subscribers.
And basically what that will give you is access to all the content that will be put, you know, sort of passively on the site.
And then it'll also give you access to things that take my time.
Like if I do a course, you know, only a subscriber will be able to register for it.
And I'll, you know, I'll do that.
That will be an extra cost.
But you won't be able to register for that unless you are a subscriber.
And there's probably going to be some criteria on how many points you have in certain classes to be able to register for certain classes and things like that.
I don't want to make it too complicated.
I just want to give you guys the sense that there's going to be a lot coming.
I really think it's a good idea to be a member.
If nothing else, I hate these arguments.
I'm not asking for charity here.
I do think this provides a ton of value.
But if nothing else, you know, I do think we're supporting the education.
If you like the way I am supporting education in math and you want that to exist, right, you know, I think it's just a good idea to be a subscriber to the site.
If you're a little closer to me, you're listening to this, hit me up if you want to be a lifetime subscriber and we'll talk about it.
But it's not something I enter into lightly.
And so the six of you that are lifetime, I think you guys all know,
I didn't allow that or I didn't enter into that agreement with you guys lightly.
You know, I have a solemn vow to deliver that value to you guys.
And by extension, it'll be delivered to everybody else.
So this isn't a pitch to come join the website, but it is definitely, you know,
I couldn't do the show with Rob today.
And so I thought,
hey,
why not just,
why not just get on solo and talk to you guys?
I think that's going to be about it.
Until next time.
Peace.