Where did you top out in math classes?
g00dn3ss: Recent evidence tends to indicate that 'not smart enough' is probably a myth.  Almost everything can be attributed to exposure and effort at some point rather than some innate smartness.A lot of advanced math takes some serious concentration to understand.  For some non-practical aspects, I found that I lacked the motivation rather than ability to understand it .  One particular class where I seemed to hit my tolerance was a theoretical linear algebra class.  I could understand the practical applications of most of the topics but some of the theory seemed just out of reach.  The book was extremely dry  and I think the professor may have been taking lessons from Ben Stein.Give me a private tutor, a theoretical linear algebra for dummies book, and a pending disaster for which this is the solution, and I bet the outcome would be a little different.