Is your thinking like higher level mathematics?

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07 Aug 2016, 2:18 am

My brains works sometimes like set theory or as functions within its boundaries, continuity, minimas and maximas. It is a lot like thinking in terms of advanced calculus.

As a young child I already was thinking about concepts like infinity or like possibilities of multiple universes or universe inside of another universe.
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Isn't it interesting to think about how there are infinities inside of a finite? :heart: Life itself seems to be completely meaningless void if you do not apply those concepts to everything.



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07 Aug 2016, 4:49 am

Yes, I had the same thoughts/wonderings - but not in a mathematical way - more philosophical. Children are quite philosophical as they are busy discovering the world.


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07 Aug 2016, 5:39 am

No, rather in a critical rationalist way while being emotionally detached.



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07 Aug 2016, 5:48 am

nouse wrote:
My brains works sometimes like set theory or as functions within its boundaries, continuity, minimas and maximas. It is a lot like thinking in terms of advanced calculus.

As a young child I already was thinking about concepts like infinity or like possibilities of multiple universes or universe inside of another universe.
What I mean is:
Isn't it interesting to think about how there are infinities inside of a finite? :heart: Life itself seems to be completely meaningless void if you do not apply those concepts to everything.


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07 Aug 2016, 11:57 am

I'm really fascinated by higher math, but it's like a forbidden realm for me because I am absolutely incapable of arithmetic. But the few tentative forays I have made into sampling higher math makes perfect sense.
But ask me to do long division and I'm screwed.
I wish someone could teach me higher math without the arithmetic issues. Because yes, higher math makes sense where number crunching makes me feel like I literally have a learning impairment.


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07 Aug 2016, 12:01 pm

Math is one of my strengths, and I sometimes think of things as mathematical relationships, much like Calculus. Higher level math really doesn't involve much manual number crunching and arithmetic as does elementary school math. It's more about theories and formulas.



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08 Aug 2016, 6:42 am

nouse wrote:
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Isn't it interesting to think about how there are infinities inside of a finite?


Yes, you should enjoy advanced calculus :)


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08 Aug 2016, 9:17 am

My brain does not do math well whatsoever



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08 Aug 2016, 10:18 am

I'm a pretty linear thinker. More arithmetic than "higher level mathematics."



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08 Aug 2016, 10:21 am

No. My brain isn't oriented toward anything mathematics at all, except knowing the change is correct.

My thinking style has always tended toward musings, creative connections, philosophical contemplation. I don't know anything about higher mathematics.



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08 Aug 2016, 11:55 am

C2V wrote:
I'm really fascinated by higher math, but it's like a forbidden realm for me because I am absolutely incapable of arithmetic. But the few tentative forays I have made into sampling higher math makes perfect sense.


I love Bach and Mozart. But, I can barely play "Mary had a little lamb."


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08 Aug 2016, 12:33 pm

Music is, in its nature, very mathematical.


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08 Aug 2016, 3:57 pm

I dont think mathematically, i just have a world of my own like in a bubble. I prefer to look at the beautiful world than at people, im not too interested in people really, only my husband of course.



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08 Aug 2016, 3:59 pm

I too like to run numbers and calculations through my mind just for fun. I like adding any number together and see what they equal. Sometimes while sitting on my patio I start seeing equations floating past me. It is great fun! :D



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08 Aug 2016, 4:05 pm

Jensen wrote:
Music is, in its nature, very mathematical.
Yes music can be quantified (not sure if that's the right word) into mathematics -- the theory of music is all mathematics.

But listening to it and enjoying it doesn't involve any actual awareness of the math inherent in it.

And you don't even have to have a mathematical mind to compose it either. There are people with no head for actual math who can compose in their head elaborate pieces of music, not because they are figuring out the precise intervals expressed in numbers, but because they have a natural feel for correct harmonic intervals without even knowing there is math behind them.

I'm highly musical and was mentally composing as early as age five without lessons, and then playing on an instrument what I was composing; I have natural interval sense and can put the correct harmony to anything (I have even gotten hired in music projects based on that ability), yet I am terrible at actual mathematics.



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10 Aug 2016, 2:31 am

My brain is much like higher level mathematics in that I don't understand it and typically don't find it especially useful.


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