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Answer:Most people who know me assume that I have always loved math in all its forms. That certainly was not the case. I learned basic arithmetic very early on and enjoyed doing number tricks to show off for adults during the ages 3-7 or so. As I was exposed to algebra around age 6 onward, though, I didn't really like it -- "What are all these symbols for? I like the numbers themselves..." I remember thinking. "Why do you need a formula to solve an equation? If you give me any equation, I can find the numbers that work, so what's the point?"

So for a number of years, I didn't learn any new math. The school system was such that I could coast and get A's for many years without learning anything new relative to what I knew at age 6. This was a disappointment to my family, and frankly, to me, given how quickly I learned basic math as a small child -- but I just wasn't into it.

Now I am getting to the point of my story that's relevant to the question. Later on, I did get back to really liking math -- how did that happen?

I started to program computers around the same time as I was not learning much math anymore. But I did not learn any computer science theory then; I just learned enough of BASIC to write games that I can play by myself or with family. Eventually, by the time I was 10 or 11, I started making some simple web-based games. Because I didn't know any actual advanced math or computer science, the algorithms and code quality of my work were really bad, but on the outside, it kind of worked.

At some point, I needed to draw a circle on the screen for one of my games, and asked my family for any advice on that. They showed me how to do (x,1−x2−−−−−√), which led to trigonometry and algebra. So that's the kind of stuff you need those formulas for, I remember thinking. After that, I started filling in the gaps in algebra, and proceeded to pre-calculus and calculus in the next two years. Math was fun again.

So in the end, I would say that the best form of learning is learning out of intellectual necessity -- when you need to learn something new to solve an actual problem you are working on that's important to you. The same concept applied to me years later in the context of machine learning as well: How did Vladimir Novakovski learn Machine Learning?

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