Principia Mathematica

So has there ever been anyone who has read through all of this? The first volume alone is around 700 pages. Is it worth even picking this up?

Kurt Godel read all of it

Proof?

my head hurts just trying to read it

Characters are boring, there's no plot to speak of, thematically quite monotonic. 1/5 would not read again.

There's no point in reading it. If you want to learn mathematical logic pick up a decent textbook like Kleene's

I powered through about 20 chapters but then I had to give up. The notation is really awful and the axiom system is basically never used again so it's pretty hard to find help on the topic elsewhere.

I read the first chapters, it was cool. it's niche/long so not much point to reading all of it, you might instead skim the proofs you are interested on or read Russel's other works

Left to the reader :^)

PM was made to put math on completely solid foundation.
that is literally the ONLY motivation anyone could use to plow through that shit.

however, since godel proved this wont ever work, there is no point