Oh, oh, all of you - stop!
Jace, you're just starting in maths, you're still slogging through the well trodden highways of calculus. Your naivete is both familiar and humerous. Calculus has been around for nearly four hundred years, but even a scant 200 years ago, the whole foundations of mathematics were shaken to its roots, and much of what we find familiar in math (functions, sets, etc) became redefined to eliminate confusion, and as little as 100 years ago the notion of different levels of the infinite were hashed out. Even the basics are in flux! I was honored to have been at IU concurrently with Max Zorn, progenitor of "Zorn's Lemma", which made much of my branch of mathematics (topology) possible. Of course, he was an octegenary professor emeritus, and I was a grad student, but these things are less concrete than you think!
Even Snailin's example has a whole other way of going around to it, through field theory, as proposed by the 20 year old genius Galois, laid out in a letter the night before going and losing a duel over a young lady. Anyone who's mastered high school algebra knows full well that there can be several paths to the correct answer!
There's more similarity between the humanities and the sciences than you think. But what sets math apart - far, far apart from even the other sciences - is its purity. Not its correctness; not even its applicability; but the fact that proof is definitive, and its only limits are the human mind - and maybe not even that.
So please, stop arguing over who's better. My point was that the perception of which is "easier" was a false impression. What makes a subject easy or hard has more to do with the teacher and the relationship they can build with the student, how inspired the student can be, and what resources are available.
The fact that people are proud - actually proud about being math-illiterate is the biggest stumbling block to basic education in the US and other countries. We've made several generations scared of the subject, and ignorant of basic enumeration. I have a shirt that says 4/3 of people don't understand fractions, and dammit, most people who see it don't get the joke. But they're just as happy to be ignorant of their history, as well. Public reaction is to be shocked when people can't locate asia on a globe, but they shrug their shoulders when people can't balance their checkbook.
OK, this turned into more of a rant than anything. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but as a mathematician / historian / educator who started out as an English major, I hate this squabbling bullshit. If we all use our heads for something more than separating our ears, the world will be better, in every way.
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