RE: Why Do You Like Math?
October 29, 2016 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2016 at 12:27 pm by Alex K.)
(October 29, 2016 at 12:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 29, 2016 at 12:14 pm)Alex K Wrote: I keep forgetting that I'm a math teacher now. Still haven't gotten quite used to the idea. Many of my students hate math, and I consider it my personal mission to convince them that it is great.
One thing I have to say though, what you encounter under the name of Mathematics in high school is not yet quite the real deal. The real thing is much better, grander than I can grasp, goes deeper than I can imagine, and never seems to end. I could spend the rest of my life exploring algebra, differential geometry and algebraic topology, maybe even prove some new theorems, and wouldn't get bored. It's insane. It's like this infinite elegant architecture that we just find lying before us.
That was poetic lol. I like it!
To many mathematicians, it is in fact poetic, the aesthetic beauty of mathematical structure the purest beauty there can be. I know a few religious mathematicians who think that the mathematical edifice they study allows them to get a glimpse of God's perfection. There seem to be a lot more religious mathematicians than physicists. Maths is pure beauty, physics is messy and uncertain. One of the most brilliant math professors I had frequently spent his lunch breaks giving out Gideon bibles in front of the food court
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition