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Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:38:26 UTC No. 16624634
What make you love/like mathematics? what could you say to a person who wants to fall in love with maths?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:43:44 UTC No. 16624637
>>16624634
Go on a few dates first.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:46:17 UTC No. 16624680
>>16624637
Ok, what do you recommend?
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:53:53 UTC No. 16624714
>>16624680
https://archive.org/details/WhatIsM
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:05:58 UTC No. 16624722
>>16624634
fudd meme. has no arms, cannot escape. metaphorically just like us.
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:35:42 UTC No. 16624733
>>16624634
>What make you love/like mathematics?
philosophy and foundations of mathematics. Exceptional epistemology in constrast with the rest of human pursuits
>what could you say to a person who wants to fall in love with maths?
Study elementary linear algebea
Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:22:00 UTC No. 16624794
>>16624634
I like that mathematics is an endless conflict of someone creating some useful tool or even a new field and the old guard calling them deluded and their work pure fiction only to a hundred years later the new work finding useful applications and everyone accepting it out of pragmatism, only for them to become the new old guard and the process to repeat
you still have people arguing about irrational numbers, imaginary numbers etc not being real and intuitionists screaming about set theories that produce useful results
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:34:14 UTC No. 16625756
math is like the gym but of course there are a few differences. its an exercise of the mind. there is no cheating, either you understand something or you don’t. it takes forever to make meaningful process.
Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:43:27 UTC No. 16625758
>>16624634
>What make you love/like mathematics?
The universality. The eternal nature of it.
>what could you say to a person who wants to fall in love with maths?
You don’t just “will” to fall in love. If you don’t like it, then you will never like it.