liar liar pants on fire! i buy everything from IKEA or the grocery store, not my math teacher!
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Anonymous2007-02-21 15:35 ID:CGYpnRTN
Math lets boring people be accountants, and very boring people be actuaries. The exquisitely dull dwell in the abstracted realms of 10-page proofs for their PhD in Dullebian Boringitorics.
If it weren't for the math that's applied to the domain of computers, we wouldn't have 4chan.
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Anonymous2007-02-23 7:41 ID:RTRqac9i
We wouldn't have anything 'without math', but then again math always is.
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Anonymous2007-02-23 7:44 ID:Z5JrplDo
No assholes bring their opinions to the field (except major assholes that nobody takes seriously)
I love math because among all the subjects I've ever had to study, it's the only one I haven't disagreed with or found flaws with. I've been troubled by it, but of course, it's very complex.
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Anonymous2007-02-23 16:58 ID:RTRqac9i
>>14
You've found flaws with everything you've studied, EH?
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Anonymous2007-02-23 17:41 ID:rPJ/DQ1l
>>15
Excuse me? Can you read? He says he HASN'T disagreed OR found flaws with. God!
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Anonymous2007-02-23 18:52 ID:6by8/w09
>>16
Excuse me? Can you read? He says he HASN'T disagreed OR found flaws with math, but he has with everything else. God!
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Anonymous2007-02-23 19:01 ID:RTRqac9i
Thanks >>17
for sticking up for my reading comprehension skills :) >>16
You jerk!
>>16 here, easy misconception anyone could have made. Haha.
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Anonymous2007-02-26 16:22 ID:6/h9DS2l
What mathematicians do today will probably come in handy in the future. Medieval farmers probably would have thought that calculus was retarded and pointless, but it's pretty useful now, and it would have been back then had they used the appropriate technology. Moreover, it would have aided them in developing that technology, so a good mathematician in the 800s could have done some amazing stuff.
There are many modern applications of algebra (e.g., cryptography, computer science, physics) and analysis (e.g., PDEs with applications in mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering as well as in chemistry, biology, sociology, and physics, functional analysis with applications in computer science, physics, etc.), but the coolest applications are usually what comes after several generations-worth of seemingly unappliable mathematics.
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Anonymous2007-02-27 23:01 ID:S+fmso0U
>>21
Agreed, I mean look at the areas of math used in string theory.
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Anonymous2007-02-28 3:34 ID:nCyCZn0x
lolz
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Anonymous2007-03-02 23:43 ID:3MMhZfp/
>>14
math has it's limits and flaws
a mathematician ironically proved it
>>29
Defending their equations and theorems from a neutral point has never been the case with math or physics.
They are committed to the theory,as if it was a religious scripture.
>>31
Its disallowed in mathematics.
Consider infinity.Every mathematician i seen argues until the bubbles come out of his mouth that infinity cannot be compared,manipulated or
operated on.WHILE HAPPILLY USING x/infinity=0 and infinity*-1=-infinity.
>>35
Its known that x/infinity=0 is false,but wikipedia and math books use it.
They don't consider the result is ranging from non-zero infinitesimal to 1
(when x=infinity).