Maths, was Time-line inconsistency from Quidditch
blpurdom at yahoo.com
blpurdom at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 17 17:05:33 UTC 2001
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., dfrankis at d... wrote:
> I love maths, and I'm good at it (Oxford 1st). I've met people who
> are good but happy to leave it behind. I agree with Joy that many
> people are bad at it because they think they are. Others do have
> genuine issues with the degree of abstraction involved ('let x be a
> number such that...'). [snip]
> David, also happy to help with problems...
I'm also fairly good at math (you can tell I'm American), and must
use it because I'm studying architecture, but I still feel more like
an artist who uses math and physics as a tool, rather than an
engineer. However, I do find that mathematicians can be very good
writers; wasn't Lewis Carroll some kind of mathematics teacher? Then
there's Douglas Hofstedter, who wrote Goedel/Escher/Bach and
Metamagical Themas. Of course, I read Stephen Hawking and Stephen
Jay Gould for fun, and right now I'm reading James Gleik's *Faster*
(he is the author of *Chaos*).
--Barb
(who is too nerdy to live...)
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