Why do you like maths?

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Reply 20

user382

Original post by Serine Soul

James Dean and Audrey Hepburn :heart:

Reply 21

Indeterminate

Because it's an utterly beautiful subject :love:

And extremely satisfying :biggrin:

Reply 22

B_9710

Original post by HapaxOromenon2

Not necessarily, for example the following statement can be neither proved or disproved:

"If the set S has a smaller cardinality than a set T, then S also has fewer subsets than T".
- It is undecidable.

I know there are exceptions but I'm saying if something has been proven true or false, then that is that - there's no arguing with it. I mean examples like trisecting an angle using straight edge and compass, the fact that then can not be a general quintic formula, squaring the circle,

e^{i\pi}=-1

. Amazing what can be done with maths (people will say that these problems I said above cannot be applied to the real world but does it really matter??)

Reply 23

Bernie2016

Original post by BrokenLife

I don't

I feel sad that some people are incapable of seeing it's true beauty. :frown:

Reply 24

B_9710

Original post by aymanzayedmannan

Physics can to some extent.

Physics only helps with real world things. What use is that?? :wink:

Reply 25

B_9710

Original post by Bernie2016

I feel sad that some people are incapable of seeing it's true beauty. :frown:

They're missing out for sure. You can never get someone to see what you're seeing in maths.

Reply 26

BrokenLife

Original post by Bernie2016

I feel sad that some people are incapable of seeing it's true beauty. :frown:

Think I'm on the wrong thread :biggrin:

I mean just look at those reps you got! :tongue:

But hey its not everyone's cup of tea :h:

Reply 27

hassassin04

Original post by HapaxOromenon2

Given current ZFC. It is not impossible that in the future a new axiom might be added which fits everything so far achieved and allows us to prove extra statements.

Reply 28

xs4

The fact that 0!=1 has allowed me to confuse so many people :mmm:

Reply 29

drandy76

Original post by xs4

The fact that 0!=1 has allowed me to confuse so many people :mmm:

Back in pre school I used to yell random multiplication questions at classmates and smirk when they couldn't answer

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Reply 30

xs4

Original post by drandy76

Back in pre school I used to yell random multiplication questions at classmates and smirk when they couldn't answer

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Reply 31

ItsKiara

I guess it's because with maths, once you understand it and get to grips with it it's easier unlike with essay subjects. Also, it's more clear cut so the answer is either right or wrong whereas if you get a nasty essay question in English Lit or RS then RIP 😂
In maths even for the nastiest questions you can still get marks for working out and there are always other questions to answer and in essay subjects you can be left feeling like 'omg I just bs my way through it, what if everything is wrong/incomplete/not structured properly'
Also the marking is subjective, my friend once got a low B at GCSE English and remarked it to get an A. That kind of crap doesn't happen with maths.

Reply 32

Zacken

Reminder: clean up this thread.

Reply 33

Zacken

Original post by RueXO

Maths essays are a thing at university level.

Reply 34

ItsKiara

Original post by Zacken

Maths essays are a thing at university level.

u wot m8😂😭 how? What would you write?

Reply 35

Zacken

Original post by RueXO

u wot m8😂😭 how? What would you write?

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Excess.pdf

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/Essay.pdf

Reply 36

xs4

The Lorenz attractor, absolutely stunning. (defined by)
dx/dt = σ(y-x) ,dy/dt = x(p-z)-y & dz/dt = xy-βz respectively

lol movement through euclidean space xyz.. #YaDigg? :lol: