Uh... so... H. P. Lovecraft. Uh... did you know... I do not even know how to say this; it explains a lot: As cited in S.T. Joshi’s I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2013), HPL remarked in 1931, “In studies I was not bad – except for mathematics, which repelled and exhausted me. I passed in these subjects – but just about that. Or rather it was algebra which formed the bugbear. Geometry was not so bad. But the whole thing disappointed me bitterly..."