I have a fear of mathematics.

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I cut myself shaving with mathematically perfect blades.

If we keep using mathematics to drive our artistic expression, all we will keep making are boxes.

Edward Albee's "Box"--Classic or Dud?

― Ashley Andel, Monday, 7 October 2002 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, so this thread is really three threads.

― Ashley Andel, Monday, 7 October 2002 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't be alarmed...math is friendly.

― Miss Laura, Monday, 7 October 2002 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

not to me it wasnt. but i like the patterns it makes.

― donna (donna), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

mathematics makes more than boxes

some pretty "outsider" art:

http://www.theorderoftime.com/science/sciences/articles/images/beauty.jpeg

it is called "outsider" bcz crops are grown outside

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

hehe, most

BURN

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, that banal arrangement might as well be a box--I prefer the corn field Babe Ruth, even though it reminds me of someone who has seen "Field Of Dreams" a little too many times.

― Ashley Andel, Monday, 7 October 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

you have no soul

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked the crop circle with the binary-encoded message. It's the world's biggest wheatiest CD! There was this woman on the TV going, "Wow! It must be real because only ALIENS speak binary!" and I was just thinking, "hahaha there is some bored computer scientist laughing at your analysis of his handiwork now..."

Maths contains pretty concepts but actually trying to understand how they work is terrifying. Uh, and then there are lots of bits (like most of the ones you do at school) which are just boring and scary. Er. Um. Oh well.

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i wuv mark s

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Without maths, we'd have no Don Caballero. Think about that for a moment.

― ls, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

no don caballero= life ain't worth living!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"why do you have to hate what you don't understand?"
"I don't hate you, bobby."
"I was talking about mathematics."

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

iluv mathematics, more than all subjects

― romel claro, Saturday, 3 January 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I cut myself shaving with mathematically perfect blades.

Nono, its the engineers who let you down. Blame them, their professionals, they can take it. Meanwhile all the physicists and mathematicians in the world have to suffer without being able to notarize documents and passports and such.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If we keep using mathematics to drive our artistic expression, all we will keep making are boxes.

I have a theory that Stephen Merritt has written a program that creates perfect synth-pop by filtering twenty mathematical equations through Microsoft Media Player. He's using version 2.0, and he got the code for version 1.0 from the Pet Shop Boys.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 3 January 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You want beauty in maths, go to fractals. There are countless beautiful Julia sets, and the Mandelbrot Set (a sort of index of Julia sets) is absolutely breathtaking.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

when come back bring pi

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and ß Band cds.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Math is my best subject.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 3 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not afraid of math, but i am terrible at it. i like reading abt it, but even simple math has always been a struggle for me.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 3 January 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It always came very easily to me. When I was studying computing at university, when we had a maths module, the lecturers appointed me a tutor to my own classmates, helping them with stuff which had been entirely new to me at the lecture the day before.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 3 January 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in a terrible bind because of my inability to comprehend any math beyond junior high level--I'd like to get into nursing school, but I can't pass remedial math even with tutoring.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 4 January 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand your wicked ways
And your wicked ways don't understand me
But I've got my own wicked way
Add mine to yours and you'll agree
That you plus me equals pure wickedness
You plus me's not just arithmetic
It's wicked mathematics
Wicked mathematics

I was battered and that's when I was at school
And the combinations would always floor me
But the combinations we could do
Would make your maths look like ABC
You plus me equals pure wickedness
You plus me's not just arithmetic
It's wicked mathematics
Wicked mathematics

― Nicolette (Dan Perry), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Can anyone recommend a book (or even a website) for somebody trying to re-learn some basic maths concepts?

I'm studying for the GRE and it's been a while since I've had to calculate a square root and stuff like that.

― Canpass Air, Monday, 19 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I just wikipedia the maths term i'm looking for help with.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

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