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Huehuecoyotl
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Re: I desperately want to comprehend the beauty of mathematics [Re: dr0mni]
#3766281 - 02/11/05 11:04 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yes, but one does not need to use numbers to use math. Math is often interpreted to mean big numbers instead of just logic. Numbers are merely one way of expressing it.
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PhanTomCat
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Re: I desperately want to comprehend the beauty of mathematics [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#3766316 - 02/11/05 11:13 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Huehuecoyotl said: Yes, but one does not need to use numbers to use math. Math is often interpreted to mean big numbers instead of just logic. Numbers are merely one way of expressing it.
Aaaahhhh, the beauty in simplicity.....
Is MATH (that) simple....?
If YOU (let it) BE simple....
YES....
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Plok
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Re: I desperately want to comprehend the beauty of mathematics [Re: freddurgan]
#3769148 - 02/11/05 10:44 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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The reason that mathematics has been so pursued and studied is because it has direct application to the real world. Even the more esoteric branches you listed like Combinatorics and Differential Equations have direct, real world application.
But perhaps the biggest factor driving mathematics historically are people's ego. Who wouldn't want to have a mathemetical thereom, something which will last forever in the minds and texts across the world, named after them?
By the way, many of the highest level branches of mathematics are used in physics, which, quite obviously, has real world application.
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Re: I desperately want to comprehend the beauty of mathematics [Re: freddurgan]
#3777729 - 02/14/05 08:16 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Chemistry is divide this, add that. It's simple math. Even Physics isn't that complicated of math, at least not in the early stages."
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MAIA
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Re: I desperately want to comprehend the beauty of mathematics [Re: freddurgan]
#3778345 - 02/14/05 11:05 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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What's the point?
Quantify reality.
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What is it teaching us?
The more quantifiable a reality is, the more control you'll have over its elements.
MAIA
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