An arcane discipline invented by the ancients to ensure full employment among pointy headed professors who lack social skills to enter or succeed in any of the
social sciences, including spelling.
The principal means by which this is achieved is to establish an extensive, cascading order of
complexity, such that each class is offered only as a prerequisite to the next.
Mathematics is the language of tenure. Since
university administrators invariably come from more serious disciplines, they could give a rat's what goes on in the math department, excepting,
of course the math professors' occasional brush with the FBI and kiddy porn.
She: Why am I having to take all this goddamn math?
He: To help Dr. Goldbaum enjoy lap dances down at
the truck stop.