College Algebra By Kaufmann -

“Market’s soft. Sorry.”

Or he tried to.

Defeated, Miles trudged back to his dorm and tossed the thick, blue-covered book onto his desk. Its cover showed a neat grid with a graceful curve—a parabola, he remembered, though he didn't know why it mattered. That night, unable to sleep, he cracked it open to Chapter 1: Basic Concepts. college algebra by kaufmann

Miles had always considered himself a student of stories, not symbols. He could spend hours dissecting a novel’s theme or tracing a poem’s meter, but the moment he saw an equation like f(x) = x² + 3 , his brain would simply… stop. The letters looked foreign. The parentheses felt aggressive. “Market’s soft

Some truths, he decided, need no translation. unable to sleep