Chapter 4 introduced functions. Kaufmann wrote: “A function is a rule that assigns to each element in one set exactly one element in another set.”
So when he failed his first college algebra exam, he did what any reasonable English major would do: he sold the textbook back to the bookstore. college algebra by kaufmann
“Market’s soft. Sorry.”
Miles had always considered himself a student of stories, not symbols. He could spend hours dissecting a novel’s theme or tracing a poem’s meter, but the moment he saw an equation like f(x) = x² + 3 , his brain would simply… stop. The letters looked foreign. The parentheses felt aggressive. Chapter 4 introduced functions