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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