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04 Apr 2012, 1:54 pm

I would say maths is my strength overall.

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04 Apr 2012, 2:12 pm

Tuttle wrote:

Math and creativity.

I'm a mathematician who's weakness is in numbers. What I do is creative, is math, and is not just manipulating numbers.

Math is far more than you learn in high school.

I'm a math major and I definitely agree with your statement. I'm terrible with numbers. But I'm good at proofs, understanding abstractions, and finding weird ways of solving problems.

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04 Apr 2012, 2:19 pm

bizboy1 wrote:

Tuttle wrote:

Math and creativity.

I'm a mathematician who's weakness is in numbers. What I do is creative, is math, and is not just manipulating numbers.

Math is far more than you learn in high school.

I'm a math major and I definitely agree with your statement. I'm terrible with numbers. But I'm good at proofs, understanding abstractions, and finding weird ways of solving problems.

Dude, I had no idea math was that different. I always thought it was just numbers, and you completely lost me 0.o

Do you mean you find different ways to solve a mathematical equation? This is very new for me :bounce:

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04 Apr 2012, 2:29 pm

Stuffedwithempty wrote:

bizboy1 wrote:

Tuttle wrote:

Math and creativity.

I'm a mathematician who's weakness is in numbers. What I do is creative, is math, and is not just manipulating numbers.

Math is far more than you learn in high school.

I'm a math major and I definitely agree with your statement. I'm terrible with numbers. But I'm good at proofs, understanding abstractions, and finding weird ways of solving problems.

Not really. I don't really solve equations. I was taking real analysis, mathematical logic, and number theory before I took a break from college. If you took lower division math or an applied math class than you would deal with numbers a lot more. The harder maths deal more with arguments or proofs than computation!

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04 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm

bizboy1 wrote:

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bizboy, I'm very sorry, but you still kind of lost me ^^"

I think I get the gist though. So, the type of math you deal with is a lot more complicated than numbers. It doesn't deal with equations, but... something to do with... I'm not sure. Argh, my simple brain can't comprehend it ._.

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04 Apr 2012, 2:50 pm

I was tested as gifted in math in grade school, but stopped doing my work in highschool and now I can't even handle basic university math. If I did the work, I'd probably excel, but I just get bored.

On the other hand, I feel as though my native language is music, it's what I'm most fluent in, and when words desert me, it's always there. Writing music for me is as necessary as breathing.

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04 Apr 2012, 2:53 pm

Stuffedwithempty wrote:

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Yes. It deals more with arguments and less with equations and numbers. You are dealing more with concepts and definitions. It requires a deeper understanding of the material.

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04 Apr 2012, 3:03 pm

I think I understand. So because I've never heard of this form of math before, I can't comprehend it, because I'm not sure what i'm supposed to imagine, right?

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04 Apr 2012, 3:15 pm

Stuffedwithempty wrote:

I think I understand. So because I've never heard of this form of math before, I can't comprehend it, because I'm not sure what i'm supposed to imagine, right?

stuff like this: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/perso ... lgebra.pdf

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04 Apr 2012, 3:21 pm

I read over a bit of it. But unless someone sits down with me and explains how this is done, I can't fully comprehend this. :scratch:

But thanks! :salut:

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04 Apr 2012, 3:26 pm

Stuffedwithempty wrote:

I read over a bit of it. But unless someone sits down with me and explains how this is done, I can't fully comprehend this. :scratch:

But thanks! :salut:

It's hard stuff. I struggled learning it with the prerequisites. But that's not the point. The point was to show you what the stuff looks like. It has a lot of words! You need to know and understand the definitions and have the math skills to solve the type of problems. Very little arithmetic.

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04 Apr 2012, 3:39 pm

I thought that was arithmetic x.x

Hoo boy, I'll just leave it that math has layers I've yet to comprehend :mrgreen:

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04 Apr 2012, 3:44 pm

Art for me - visual arts. I draw and batik but have made jewelry (cloisonne) and painted in acrylics in the past.
I do have a technical job that involves a lot of number work. Nothing in the math field, more financial. I work at home otherwise I would've found something else long ago.

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04 Apr 2012, 4:12 pm

Ganondox wrote:

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Both, goddammit. This poll is useless. The two are in no way mutually exclusive.

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However, my approach to math is probably fairly creative, following algorithms that someone else created bores me.

This. This x1000.

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04 Apr 2012, 4:35 pm

While I do consider myself more the artsy type, when I was a little kid, I was really good with numbers. I used to have the ability to tell you what day of the week a certain date was, and I was always correct, without knowing how I did that.

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04 Apr 2012, 5:47 pm

Stuffedwithempty wrote:

I thought that was arithmetic x.x

Hoo boy, I'll just leave it that math has layers I've yet to comprehend :mrgreen:

You can't really expect to understand advanced math without going through the formal definitions that describe the rules governing the objects your dealing with. Mathematicians tend to develop a lot of formal jargon and symbols to describe things that would be incredibly tedious to write out in ordinary English. Modern math is essentially the study of systems governed by certain rules and the consequences that can be logically deduced from these rules.

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