I think much of that 'daunt' comes from the lack of instructional resources needed to support a solo journey through higher math. Yes, there are some great illuminating sources (like Kahn Academy and 3blue1brown), but if you're embarking on an epic quest (like recapping a BA in math), the essential guidance needed for coherent and graceful passage through all the requisite concepts simply does not exist -- short of reading 20 HS and college textbooks, which will subject you to a maddening amount of redundancy while leaving many fundamental concepts underexplained.
The day that large language models can capably tutor me through the many twisted turns of higher math -- that's when I'll believe that deep AI has achieved something truly useful.
Can you link a chat and show specifically where one falls off explaining, eg complex numbers or integration by parts? it's been a while since my math minor, but ChatGPT seemed to be able to guide me through what I recall of those topics.
The day that large language models can capably tutor me through the many twisted turns of higher math -- that's when I'll believe that deep AI has achieved something truly useful.