Science Does the fact that a circle can not be quadrable depress or annoy you in any way? - Page 2

Jenson71 · 02-03-2009, 01:17 AM

Because I'm thinking of starting a social group about it.

Yes, there is a point to this thread. This is a topic on math. What are some of your favorite math theorems? How useful do you find math in your everyday life? Do you think learning the various mathematical areas (geometry, calculus, algebra) were useful to you in a practical way or in any kind of abstract way? Do you value your math knowledge?

**Bugeater** · 02-03-2009, 07:03 AM

One of my math teachers once told me pi r squared. What an idiot, we all know they're round.

**cdcox** · 02-03-2009, 07:05 AM

Over the past several years I've been collaborating with some biologists and other engineerings to mathematically model various biological processes. One day our conversation went something like this:

Biologist: How come every time we get together you engineers start by writing a differential equation on the board?

Engineer1: Because differential equations describe how the world works.

Engineer2: It's a differential equation world, and you're live in it.

Biologist: I feel like shooting myself in the head.

**cdcox** · 02-03-2009, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

One of my math teachers once told me pi r squared. What an idiot, we all know they're round.

Yup. That's why I always say pi-dee-squared-over-four.

I love this thread.

StcChief · 02-03-2009, 07:54 AM

Basic math, alegbra, boolean algebra,set theory. What makes databases tick.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 02-03-2009, 08:07 AM

Can someone get to the root of this issue? Please do so, without going off on a tangent, just put it all out on the table.

KC Jones · 02-03-2009, 08:13 AM

When I first learned that not all infinities are equal, I thought that was pretty damn cool. Set Theory is good stuff and very relevant to programming. I got scared away from math in school when I struggled with differential equations and some advanced calculus. I should get back into it again - I think I have a preference for theoretical math rather than applied.

Basileus777 · 02-03-2009, 08:22 AM

As we speak I'm trying to memorize Arrow's impossibility theorem for an exam.

God, I hate math.

beach tribe · 02-03-2009, 08:39 AM

I think Math is a wonderful thing, but I hate it with a passion.

I'm really good at doing basic math in my head, and I have a calculator for everything else. I'm an autodesk engineer. So I guess math, and I have to get along.

MOhillbilly · 02-03-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Crush

To any teenagers out there: take as many math courses as you possibly can. You will not regret this decision.

To any parents out there: encourage your children to take as many math courses as they possibly can.

Dude i dog my stepdaughter about her math classes. she told me they dont get issued a math book and have to check one out from the library.

so i said bullshit and looked into it, sure enough she was tellin the truth.

she came home with a C in math. pffff i hit the roof, told her she better have an strong B by the time grades come back around.

my oldman being a physics teacher i learned at an early age the power of math skills.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 02-03-2009, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MOhillbilly

Dude i dog my stepdaughter about her math classes. she told me they dont get issued a math book and have to check one out from the library.

so i said bullshit and looked into it, sure enough she was tellin the truth.

she came home with a C in math. pffff i hit the roof, told her she better have an strong B by the time grades come back around.

my oldman being a physics teacher i learned at an early age the power of math skills.

Completely missed those lessons on capitalization though, huh?

MagicHef · 02-03-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jenson71

Does the fact that a circle can not be quadrable depress or annoy you in any way?

No, not really.

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Originally Posted by cdcox

I get great satisfaction and enjoyment out of having a computer do very numerically intensive calculations that represent some aspect of reality.

Me too, I'm a huge nerd. Unfortunately, my job requires a surprisingly small amount of math. It's actually pretty frustrating.

**BigRedChief** · 02-03-2009, 09:06 AM

College Algera almost killed me. I have no desire to go beyond that level.

but in my field(I.T.)and at my level they tell everyone to get a high level of math skills before entering the field. I never saw the strict corelation.

Sure we have to know A + B = C and then someone says "G" is broke and all you did was A+B=C. So you have to figure out how "G" was effected but is not part of the equation. But I don't know how taking high level math skill courses in college would have helped me do this on a daily basis. In my experience you either have this skill or not. Sure you can get better but its still an inert skill, not something learned in a class.

Fish · 02-03-2009, 09:21 AM

Math is the universal language. It spans the entirety of the universe. It binds everything.

Most people never realize how much they use it in their everyday lives. Language, art, music, all based on mathematics.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. ~John Kemeny

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ~Gottfried Leibniz

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid

**cdcox** · 02-03-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by MagicHef

Me too, I'm a huge nerd. Unfortunately, my job requires a surprisingly small amount of math. It's actually pretty frustrating.

One of our undergraduate students tells the story of her plans to go into architecture. During summer orientation, she found out that she didn't need to take any more math. She started crying. Eventually she transfered into engineering.

**Buck** · 02-03-2009, 11:16 AM

Three guests check into a hotel. The clerk says the bill is $30 so each pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify he gives the bellhop five dollars to return to the guests. On the way back to the room the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to give each guest a dollar and keep two for himself.

Now that the guests have been given a dollar back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But, 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining dollar?

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