Fractals (Score 1)

I did this when i picked up a book on fractals...lots of bright pictures, it seemed interesting. In there, they talked about integrals, which i hadn't learned yet, so i set out to find out what those were.

That is *exactly* what got me interested in math, I couldn't agree more. I took advanced math in high school just for the sole purpose of learning complex numbers, when I came across fractals. I've no idea of how many hours were spent in reading about the math online and writing programs in C to render them using everything from SVGALib to ray-tracing to my little TI-83 graphics calculator. (hehe, they took a while to render, that last one)

excellent comment. find something interesting and work at it. when you do hit a stumbling block you go back with purpose to learn something new.

Yes, math can be fun. =]