The Official Cambridge Offer Holders Thread 2017 Entry

See I am really good at coming up with abstract ideas based on reason and judgement and given facts... I cannot for the life of me deal with numbers! I haven't a mathematical brain or a super creative brain for things /too/ open to interpretation (like art). I think I have the brain of a philosopher, though not one who deals with arithmetic.

Nah!

Many of the best philosophers were mathematicians as well e.g. Rene Descartes so those kinds of minds are not mutually exclusive!

I know, hence I said "one who struggles with arithmetic". My brother did philosophy at Leeds uni, and he did lots
of maths for it. However, there are amazing philosophers and scientists who struggled when using numbers but still got things right or said some interesting and important things. I think it's those who I have a brain most like!

Fair thing That's true, a lot of science is chance anyways

Silly deductive method joking

See I am really good at coming up with abstract ideas based on reason and judgement and given facts... I cannot for the life of me deal with numbers! I haven't a mathematical brain or a super creative brain for things /too/ open to interpretation (like art). I think I have the brain of a philosopher, though not one who deals with arithmetic.

Everyone used to get mad at me because I couldn't do maths and my drawings were hopeless...

That's why you and the good Dr S are such kindred spirits. Well I can't vouch for his artistic abilities but his arithmetic is certainly shocking.

(That's a joke btw, in case he's reading.... )

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My maths is also equally shocking. I actually loved astronomy growing up and my dream was to be an astronaut or astronomer and I could always understand complex concepts I just... couldn't do the maths. In fact the first thing I ever said/did in class was explain in great depth a supernova and a constellation

Then I found History which satisfies my inquisitive mind and doesn't alienate us not-mathsy folk

Well I had Chinese and Mechanics 2 today and I tell you what those papers were a blessing! 😁

Thanks be to Edexcel 👏 (for once)

M2 nice??? I got destroyed by it... no past paper was that difficult imo

One of my best friends struggled with it

I've literally never seen a folded lamina in that form before... And then I just forgot how to do maths from there onwards. Just hoping I pass the module now, because I can make it up elsewhere

I've literally never seen a folded lamina in that form before... And then I just forgot how to do maths from there onwards. Just hoping I pass the module now, because I can make it up elsewhere

I know, hence I said "one who struggles with arithmetic". My brother did philosophy at Leeds uni, and he did lots
of maths for it. However, there are amazing philosophers and scientists who struggled when using numbers but still got things right or said some interesting and important things. I think it's those who I have a brain most like!

See I am really good at coming up with abstract ideas based on reason and judgement and given facts...

I used some complicated way to do it (got the answer though) - but you could just have done the two rectangles and added the triangle twice :Z

Most of maths has nothing to do with numbers -- it's dealing with abstract concepts and ideas based on actual reason and logic and given facts where the logic is truly soundproof and the given facts truly are given (axiomatically).

I used some complicated way to do it (got the answer though) - but you could just have done the two rectangles and added the triangle twice :Z

Most of maths has nothing to do with numbers -- it's dealing with abstract concepts and ideas based on actual reason and logic and given facts where the logic is truly soundproof and the given facts truly are given (axiomatically).

Well I can do some maths really well. Algebra and things like that, and I can do lots of philosophy involved in undergraduate studies which is more heavily maths based. I could always do the A* questions in a GCSE revision book, and not the easier ones. I've got a weird brain.