[ SECRET POST #2450 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2450 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've never been good at maths (lowest result in school, below even chemistry, which I'd originally failed first time around), but I love the concept of it. A language in which to frame ideas so that you can derive an objectively true answer from them (well, providing you've framed it correctly, anyway).

I mostly encountered it in earth sciences, which I struggled hugely with because of their dependence on math and my, ah, complete inability to translate it, but I could see the shape of what it was doing. When people put up the actual event (glacier moving) and then the equation, and then broke down what the elements of the equation were referring to, I could start to see what math was and what it could do. And you can go all the way up and down the scales with that, the numbers and the shape of how they interact can have the whole universe in it, and that's pretty much the coolest thing ever.

But I still can't read an equation to save my life. When I see stuff happening, I translate it into words, not mathematics. Put the glacier up and I can tell you exactly what it's doing, but put up the equation of the glacier moving and I haven't a damn clue.

It's frustrating, in the same way trying to read a language you don't know is frustrating. You know the meaning is there, and the language that's shaping it could be a work of pure art, but you can't read it, so it's wasted on you.

For all that, though, I love seeing maths used well. I love the idea that there are people out there who can do what I can't, who can look at the numbers and see a universe in them. People who can extrapolate out into the universe based on the underlying grammar of it, and get a sense of the great big shapes of things. I love that it exists, even if I can't personally use it?

I don't know if that makes any sense, though.