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Is there a reason this is only for mathmaticians? Are we meant to be more right or left handed or something? 
I'm left handed, I take pride in this since people like Da Vinci, Einstein and Bill Gates are left handed too
Left handed people are "supposed" to have a more natural ability for Maths and I hope it's true but I doubt it.
The left side of the brain controls the muscles on the right side of the body and vice versa, what makes me believe this is the fact that although I'm left handed , the right side of my body is much more masculine than the left side of my body (going to the gym I notice these things). Weird eh?
BTW, I'm right-footed and use scissors with my right hand.
Left handed people are "supposed" to have a more natural ability for Maths and I hope it's true but I doubt it.
The left side of the brain controls the muscles on the right side of the body and vice versa, what makes me believe this is the fact that although I'm left handed , the right side of my body is much more masculine than the left side of my body (going to the gym I notice these things). Weird eh?
BTW, I'm right-footed and use scissors with my right hand.
bestdeceptions
Is there a reason this is only for mathmaticians? Are we meant to be more right or left handed or something?
Well that's just it. I don't know. I'm just interested.
Lefties are supposed to be arty, sporty.
Righties are supposed to be good at maths/science.
But I don't agree. The poll results suggest that the ratio of leftie:rightie is 1:3
whereas in the general population it is 1:9
mockel
Mathematicians apparently use the left side of their brain.
However, that could be something completely unrelated to this poll.
However, that could be something completely unrelated to this poll.
The left side of the brain is used to control the right side of the body.
TomX
BTW, I'm right-footed and use scissors with my right hand.
BTW, I'm right-footed and use scissors with my right hand.
lol
I'm right-handed, but I wouldn't put too much stock into this. If you're interested in historical statistics of mathematicians, read on.
First, it is not surprising (for cultural reasons) that up until the early 20th century, only three female mathematicians made a name for themselves: Sophie Germain, Sonya Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether. It will also not surprise anyone that so many mathematicians are Jewish: certainly Jacobi, Sylvester, Kronecker, Hadamard, Hausdorff, Noether, Lefschetz, Polya, Courant, Wiener, Zariski, and von Neumann. Outside of the major cities, Alsace-Lorraine has been a particularly good source of mathematicians (Poncelet, Liouville, Poincare) as has Silesia (Kummer, Kronecker, Hausdorff, Courant).
A lot of mathematicians came from quite well-to-do bourgeois, even wealthy, families, but the majority were of humble origins. On the whole, they move up substantially in the social class, as compared with their parents. This was particularly true in France, where to have attended one of the Grandes Ecoles confers social status, and to do so requires some depth of mathematical ability, especially in the case of the Ecole Polytechnique. About one quarter of great mathematicians, historically, remained unmarried.
When you look at the occupations of the fathers of major mathematicians, you find a great variety. Only three, those of Emmy Noether, Oswald Veblen, and Norbert Wiener, could be described as academics, and of those the last was not a scientist. Grassman, Galois, Mittag-Leffler, Hadamard, Hardy and Brouwer were the sons of schoolteachers; Euler, Abel, Riemann, Lie, E.H. Moore, and Borel were the sons of ministers; Kummer, Dedekind, Poincare, Birkhoff, and Aleksandrov were the sons of physicians; Poncelet, Cauchy, Hamilton, Henry Smith, Dedekind, Hilbert, and polya were the sons of lawyers. The fathers of Sophie Germain, Jacobi, Weyl, and von Neumann were bankers. Regrettably, a lot less is known about the mothers of mathematicians.
Not many mathematicians could be described as precocious, perhaps only Euler, Gauss, Abel, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Poincare, Borel, Ramanujan, Winer, and von Neumann. The rare ability to recall vast quantities of data in a flash, or to perform huge calculations almost instantaneously, sometimes found in children, was possessed to a certain extent by some mathematicians, apparently Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Poincare, Ramanujan, and Banach. However, it is debatable whether such abilities confer any advantage in higher mathematics.
Although the majority of mathematicians lived into old age, there are some who died while still in their prime. Consumption claimed Poisson, Abel, and Riemann, while Sophie Germain, Banach, and von Neumann died of cancer and Smith of a disease of the liver. Sophus Lie died, and Hilbert nearly died, of pernicious anaemia. Abel, Cantor, Sylvester, and Wiener showed signs of manic-depression, as is not uncommon in highly creative individuals. Outside Europe (with a vast majority from France and Germany), arguably only the United States, India, and Japan has had notable mathematicians until the early 20th century. To a large extent this is a reflection of the way mathematics has developed.
First, it is not surprising (for cultural reasons) that up until the early 20th century, only three female mathematicians made a name for themselves: Sophie Germain, Sonya Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether. It will also not surprise anyone that so many mathematicians are Jewish: certainly Jacobi, Sylvester, Kronecker, Hadamard, Hausdorff, Noether, Lefschetz, Polya, Courant, Wiener, Zariski, and von Neumann. Outside of the major cities, Alsace-Lorraine has been a particularly good source of mathematicians (Poncelet, Liouville, Poincare) as has Silesia (Kummer, Kronecker, Hausdorff, Courant).
A lot of mathematicians came from quite well-to-do bourgeois, even wealthy, families, but the majority were of humble origins. On the whole, they move up substantially in the social class, as compared with their parents. This was particularly true in France, where to have attended one of the Grandes Ecoles confers social status, and to do so requires some depth of mathematical ability, especially in the case of the Ecole Polytechnique. About one quarter of great mathematicians, historically, remained unmarried.
When you look at the occupations of the fathers of major mathematicians, you find a great variety. Only three, those of Emmy Noether, Oswald Veblen, and Norbert Wiener, could be described as academics, and of those the last was not a scientist. Grassman, Galois, Mittag-Leffler, Hadamard, Hardy and Brouwer were the sons of schoolteachers; Euler, Abel, Riemann, Lie, E.H. Moore, and Borel were the sons of ministers; Kummer, Dedekind, Poincare, Birkhoff, and Aleksandrov were the sons of physicians; Poncelet, Cauchy, Hamilton, Henry Smith, Dedekind, Hilbert, and polya were the sons of lawyers. The fathers of Sophie Germain, Jacobi, Weyl, and von Neumann were bankers. Regrettably, a lot less is known about the mothers of mathematicians.
Not many mathematicians could be described as precocious, perhaps only Euler, Gauss, Abel, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Poincare, Borel, Ramanujan, Winer, and von Neumann. The rare ability to recall vast quantities of data in a flash, or to perform huge calculations almost instantaneously, sometimes found in children, was possessed to a certain extent by some mathematicians, apparently Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Poincare, Ramanujan, and Banach. However, it is debatable whether such abilities confer any advantage in higher mathematics.
Although the majority of mathematicians lived into old age, there are some who died while still in their prime. Consumption claimed Poisson, Abel, and Riemann, while Sophie Germain, Banach, and von Neumann died of cancer and Smith of a disease of the liver. Sophus Lie died, and Hilbert nearly died, of pernicious anaemia. Abel, Cantor, Sylvester, and Wiener showed signs of manic-depression, as is not uncommon in highly creative individuals. Outside Europe (with a vast majority from France and Germany), arguably only the United States, India, and Japan has had notable mathematicians until the early 20th century. To a large extent this is a reflection of the way mathematics has developed.
lefty. Just like Ned flanders i have my own shop 
TomX
Left handed people are "supposed" to have a more natural ability for Maths and I hope it's true but I doubt it.
Left handed people are "supposed" to have a more natural ability for Maths and I hope it's true but I doubt it.
Left-handed people are supposed to be more spatially-aware, and right-handed more logical/reasoning I think.
But as a right-handed mathmo, geometry is my strongest subject - I think in non-verbal pictorial ways often - and am only logical/rational when I have the energy for it.
RichE
Left-handed people are supposed to be more spatially-aware, and right-handed more logical/reasoning I think.
But as a right-handed mathmo, geometry is my strongest subject - I think in non-verbal pictorial ways often - and am only logical/rational when I have the energy for it.
But as a right-handed mathmo, geometry is my strongest subject - I think in non-verbal pictorial ways often - and am only logical/rational when I have the energy for it.
other way round for me....i hate drawing pictorial representations and stuff....algebra rules
hmm...I use my left hand for writing, and using my chopsticks...but right hand for scissors, opening bottles, and most other things...
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