The power of Mathematics, now-a-days.
@Cyberbolachas (9)
Portugal
3 responses
@awesomehorizons (884)
• United States
6 Jan 07
Not everyone hates math, we use it in our everyday lives and the art of doing math on paper or in our heads is diminishing quickly with the use of calculators and computers.
@Cyberbolachas (9)
• Portugal
6 Jan 07
But that's the point: people only think that mathematic is only arithemetic, in which we only need a computer/calculator. But arithemetic is the probably the show-off of mathematics
@kundalini444 (194)
• Italy
2 Jan 08
Mathematic provides MODELS. That's why it is so important. Everything needs abstraction to function at a certain level of complexity (i.e. computers, power grids, modern buildings) and math is a way of modeling that abstraction.
It's theories to simulate the functioning of our brain and complex things in a way that can be handled. Not only numbers and shapes, but real technology: the technology of thought.
Everybody hates mathematic (not really everybody, I love it) because it is difficult, abstraction is hostile to most common people lives. Also, in order to learn math at school you cannot leave "holes" into your studies (i.e. you cannot operate derivatives without knowing multiplication).