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Nikkoru:

--- Quote from: Burkingam on May 12, 2012, 01:33:36 PM ---Obligatory:
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I personally use algebra in a daily basis even though it's not part of my job and even without counting school, but that's just because I'm a science geek.

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It makes perfect sense. If you hate doing something, and someone makes you do it anyways, you'll resent them for it. Some people are proud of not cooking because of its gender overtones (males being masculine, females being independent). While others resent foreign languages due to ethnocentrism. I loathed music because I'm tone deaf, though I feel no pride or rancour regarding my lack of skill and no one would imply that playing a musical instrument was a determining factor in my life.  In all three cases -- music, secondary languages, and home economics -- the social and academic pressure to prevail is no where near as forcible as it is with mathematics.  Math's significance in academics has steadily increased as time has gone by, next to being functionally literate in the national language it's usually the one that bears the most weight in your curriculum.

When people brag that indeed "they never used that" branch or field of mathematics -- it's less a statement of validating professed ignorance, and more an affirmation that they themselves succeeded in spite of the heavily implied if not directly stated understanding that their professional life and personal happiness would be adversely affected had they not learned the subject matter proficiently. It's a unconscious display of catharsis from being released from the chaffing of social pressure which was once deeply stressful to the person.It's the inverse to what some mathematically oriented people feel, a particular form of narcissism based on their capacity to live up to those expectations while others did not.

Which, again, is simply absent in discussions of linguistics, musical ability, and the capacity to cook.

megido-rev.M:
Paying minimal attention to the useless qualitative "rigorous definitions" in every formal math lesson, math is a cakewalk for me. If it's in stone (i.e. texts) and the critical details are covered already, I don't need to see "Let x be a real number in domain D" every single time to get the point straight. /rant

Anyway, math is not merely numbers (that's number theory), due to the fact we can define purely symbolic formulae. Everyone who says "math sucks" clearly has no insight to what it is, or only take it as it is given to them in schooling (quite unfortunate, with the retarded curricula and all :P).

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: AceD on May 12, 2012, 12:53:13 PM ---Lonely virgins love math  8) .

Until you meet another lonely virgin who also loves math.

Yeah am a moron who would rather go out drinking with his mates, or watch the football. Basically what you would call normal male behavior....


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. . .this post is full of wrong and full of fail

you people that dont like math

Please take 27 minutes of your time
and comeback and tell me how useless math is. . .

Havoc10K:
I just came here to see if there is something interesting.
Then I see nothing interesting so:
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JoonasTo:
I love that movie

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