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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have never looked at math and saw this beauty people describe. Math to me is as beautiful as an angle grinder, it’s a useful tool that hates you and plots your demise.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
IMO math is fun when you choose to study it.
Also, if you want some classical “beauty” results, look into complex numbers and complex analysis.
But personally, I’m more partial to stuff like this, i.e. when you make “weird stuff” happen with “not very weird” ingredients.
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MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 1 day ago
Borwein is incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
See that seems like the kind of thing Matt Parker would make a video about, “Someone noticed a weird pattern in some numbers.” Like how 2 pi or the fibonacci sequence keep turning up in nature, and I just can’t muster up much more than a “…huh” about it. I mean I understand margesimpsonpotato.jpg but if you want me to do calculus you’re gonna have to bring me more than “I just think they’re neat.”
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Fair lol. IMO you kinda gotta be fucked in the head to like calculus. But I am fucked in the head, so it works for me 🤷
Personally, calculus is really where I fell in love with math. I had 0% interest in math at all until I took calculus. And also, I’m in one of the few positions where I actually use calculus all the time (PhD student in electrical engineering).
But also, I do music production as a hobby. And music production is, under the hood, real-time math. For example, audio equalizers are basically just doing real-time integration for you. You can absolutely do music production without calculus, in fact 99.9% of people do, but it’s been so helpful for my creativity to actually understand at that level what filters (and other things) do. So to me, at least in my autistic brain, math, calculus in particular, is part of everything I do, even my hobbies and free time and dreams and everything.
Oh, and computers can do calculus now, even with symbols. If you install its symbolic toolbox, GNU Octave will do it for free on a potato. So even if you don’t want to slog through the algebra, it’s super easy to just fuck around with calculus and a computer.