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Mathematics is the quantification of logic and the basis for progress.
Seriously, no one bothers reading a post that's actually backed up, so I figured I'd just rip out all the subtleties and nuances from my argument and just present a barebones statement you all can rip at. In fact, why are you even reading this part? Go get high and eat sour gummy worms or something.
as much as i don't like math, i'm going into video game designing, and i'll have to put op with it for the rest of my life. take it with a grain of salt (or in my case down the whole ****ing shaker) and do what needs to be done to do what you want to do.
Proofs make me want to be a heathen. What, prove that some act of God exists? No, thanks, I'll dance around this fire of burning math books instead.
Yeah, proofs are pretty bad, though necessary. I'd much rather use it.
Proofs are really one of the most fundamental bases of math. Without them, anyone can come up with anything and claim it's true through specific examples.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
As for anyone who said a Physicist invented Calculus, that's a lie. Anyone who is a scientist of any kind is a mathematician first, and a scientist second. Newton didn't really invent calculus, but he did progress calculus more than anyone ever did in recorded history. The ancient Greeks already knew of infinity, by dividing a round segment of a circle into infinitely many pieces to calculate its area.
I'm glad this thread spawned off more responses that I had initially hoped. Hopefully anyone reading this thread will get an idea that math is the fundamental base for advancement in life.
Calculus was one of the few things that caused me to be truly miserable my senior year.
Math, what a detestable subject.
Math is interesting to think about, but hell for most to learn. Myself included.
Actually, the statement that man invented math is fundamentally flawed. We did NOT invent math, we DISCOVERED it. Then we named it and studied it and discovered more about it, that's all. The mathamatical constants are as fundamental to this universe as gravity and superconductive electromagnitism. We sure as hell didn't invent either of those. Same thing as genetic sequencing. We didn't invent DNA- all we did was give it a name and start poking at it. Wich we humans are good at. All we do is invent ways for us to quantify it.
I wouldn't doubt that the universe is one big math equation. I skipped school a long long time in my lifetime so i'm just starting back up again, but i aint dumb, just made bad descisions. I learned geomotry in less then a day. (Which by the way kicks ass.) so i figure algerbra can't be too far off..
But i prefer more "magick" then "psionics". IE: Candles, mantra, and emotional connections to harness the idea and philosophy behind God. Not that science and math couldn't conjure The Great Spirit as well, but you have to be that type of person..
EDIT: In my dream talking to God (or atleast some sort of diety.) i had not read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy prior but now that i think about it the answer to everything COULD be 42..
To put it simply 2 is the universal rule.
So inevitably the rule is 4 right?
But for every universe and it's rule of 2 there has to be a backward.
So the answer is 42.
Math is the closest thing to god, and it's even closer to my D in Algebra :p
best post on page 2 of threadQuote:
Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart
Even if we take away the prospect of a diety...
Does nobody else find it completely amazing that in a world we would like to call chaotic and unpredictable... here it is staring us in the face, math.
One of the most organized and universal systems we can encounter?
Amid Chaos there is a Sense of Organization...
In a way, it's really almost beautiful.
math may be useful, and could have an answer for a lot of things, exept for a method to make me learn it...
My geometry teacher made us look up the number PHI (the "divine proportion) after he read The DaVinci Code. Its supposed to be the basis for physical proportions in life, like figuring out a person's arm length.
Confusing stuff...
Actually, those theories are interesting. As an artist, I'm very familiar with those concepts. Fingertip to fingertip, outstretched, is exactly the same length as the hight of the individual. And dozens of other little things. Our bodies follow certian proportions... and proportion is just math, nothing more or less than. So, even biology obeys math in the end.