Well, here is a bit of my path and how I got to Mathematics: I have a degree in English literature and I have studied languages and literature my whole life. It is my passion and although I don’t work with that, I spend most of my time reading and studying. I have learned English, therefore I can appreciate Steinbeck’s and Eliots books. Then I learned Spanish to appreciate Gabo, then French, a bit of Chinese too. My pathway usually leads me to new languages a new pieces of literature. Recently, however, I stumbled on some books on Cosmology and Astrophysics. I am reading authors like Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse, Sagan and I need to be honest, I fell in love with the subject. I rly wanna go further, but to go further, I need the math!

In my life, I am very familiar with learning languages to understand and read beautiful literature in a foreign (which was once an alien) language. Can I learn math to read the Cosmos and fully appreciate what authors like Sagan are saying? Is it similar to learning German to read Goethe? I think I need a challenge, but I was never any close to math, always had mediocre grades and it never caught my attention. So I am a bit afraid to go on and need a second opinion. If you guys say it is ridiculous, I will prolly try German.

Edit: This is the book I want to read:

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics https://a.co/d/0hYCw9VT

The author states that the reader needs a good calculus base.