Author Topic: The Math Lovers Club v. 3.1416 (Read 35694 times)

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **on:** July 15, 2009, 06:50:43 PM »

I love math, and I always have. Am I the only person on earth that loves LaPlace transformations and differential equations? Share your love for mathematics here, whether it be Arithmetics, Geometry, Algebra, Calculus, etc.

Genowyn · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2009, 06:57:14 PM »

I like math, but I'm not enough of a hard worker to understand most of it.

XJDenton · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:03:47 PM »

I dislike it.

Neccy60 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:04:51 PM »

To all the members of the Math Lovers Club:

You sicken me.

Nick · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:13:21 PM »

I am kinda neutral on math, but I'm really happy I finally found a thread where I feel safe my girlfriend won't see what I post.

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:13:50 PM »

Quote from: Neccy60 on July 15, 2009, 07:04:51 PM

To all the members of the Math Lovers Club:

You sicken me.

I'm going to hunt you down in your nightmares.

Neccy60 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:16:52 PM »

Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on July 15, 2009, 07:13:50 PM

Quote from: Neccy60 on July 15, 2009, 07:04:51 PM
To all the members of the Math Lovers Club:

You sicken me.
I'm going to hunt you down in your nightmares.

I will hide behind a book of literature. You know, something not requiring a math fetish to understand.

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:19:06 PM »

Math is a useful tool.

Neccy60 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:26:06 PM »

Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on July 15, 2009, 07:19:06 PM

Math is a useful tool.

Or I could just ask her out. :3

brakkum · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:26:56 PM »

I can enjoy it if I don't find it meaningless.

MS394 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:59:48 PM »

Math is great

.

Metalingus · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:09:18 PM »

One of the coolest shapes in math:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **Reply #12 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:15:43 PM »

jasc15 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:47:30 PM »

e^iπ + 1 = 0

I remember when i learned why this is true.

Nick · « **Reply #14 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:49:02 PM »

Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on July 15, 2009, 07:19:06 PM

Math is a useful tool.

Funny, but it would be better and more reasonable if Money was the root of all evil, and evil was ~ (about) problems.

That way the end would be that women are ~ problems.

XianL · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2009, 08:55:06 PM »

1 = sqrt(1) = sqrt((-1)(-1)) = sqrt((-1)²) = -1

amiright?

AmorVincitOmnia · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2009, 09:13:14 PM »

Quote from: Nick on July 15, 2009, 07:13:21 PM

I am kinda neutral on math, but I'm really happy I finally found a thread where I feel safe my girlfriend won't see what I post.

hey i read that

ZachyDou · « **Reply #17 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:07:48 PM »

Quote from: DarkLord_Lalinc on July 15, 2009, 07:19:06 PM

Math is a useful tool.

*head explodes*

reneranucci · « **Reply #18 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:33:15 PM »

I use math everyday (I study economics in graduate school) but recently I have become very interested in math by itself, and I plan to dedicate the next years to study the subject seriously (yes, I don´t have neither a job nor a girlfriend

) and maybe earning a degree in math. I have bought some books and I´ll start with those.

I still don´t have the knowledge to be able to discuss anything of importance and I don´t have a natural talent for math, but for what I´ve learned, number theory, real analysis, algebraic geometry and game theory seem more attractive to me. I´m not specially fond of differential equations even though I have used them a lot, I just don´t find them that interesting. I´m more inclined to the most abstract part of mathematics or those areas that exhibit an especial elegance or beauty.

/nerd

DarkLord_Lalinc · « **Reply #19 on:** July 15, 2009, 11:14:40 PM »

Algebraic Geometry is amazing. I love the study of the conics and how you're able to represent any geometric expression with algebra.

AcidLameLTE · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2009, 01:36:29 AM »

Quote from: jasc15 on July 15, 2009, 08:47:30 PM

e^iπ

Is it just me or does that say "Iain"?

Math sucks but I have to use it for my course

P.S. https://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=n00b

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 16, 2009, 09:07:40 AM »

Quote from: XianL on July 15, 2009, 08:55:06 PM

1 = sqrt(1) = sqrt((-1)(-1)) = sqrt((-1)²) = -1

amiright?

No.

My major is math related (high school math teacher). I get to take Calculus 3 and Applied Linear Algebra this fall. I would've taken Modern Geometries and Differential Equations 1 if they had offered it.

Math is love, for me. I'm attracted to its objective nature, and its formulaic devices and methods. It always works, and if for some reason a method shows that something doesn't work (such as sequences and series tests), it's still by the process of elimination through mathematical means, not a failed formula.

Integrals are my more recent favorite to mess around with.

I tend to forget the names of some concepts in mathematics if I haven't used them in a while (talking about stuff from high school or college classes some years ago). Stuff like matrices and other things that don't get used a lot in upper levels of math. I need to review that stuff since I'm going to be tutoring soon...

Volk9 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 16, 2009, 09:12:09 AM »

Lol, I thought the thread title said "Man Lovers" club at first...

...not that theres anything wrogn with that

bob · « **Reply #23 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:05:30 AM »

Calculus is wonderful.

That is all.

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:34:15 AM »

Quote from: bob on July 16, 2009, 10:05:30 AM

Calculus is wonderful.

That is all.

I officially love on you. *loves on you*

Edit: 11111th post in a math thread. Oh, the ironing.

Orbert · « **Reply #25 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:42:42 AM »

Quote from: XianL on July 15, 2009, 08:55:06 PM

1 = sqrt(1) = sqrt((-1)(-1)) = sqrt((-1)²) = -1

amiright?

No, it falls apart at the last Equals sign.

sqrt((-1)²) = -1 seems intuitive at first, but it's second degree, and you simplify under the radical first, so all it's really saying is that -1 is one of the square roots of 1. The other of course is 1, and there's no rule that says the roots must be equal.

reneranucci · « **Reply #26 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:43:14 AM »

the concept of limit is vey cool, especially when you learn the rules to take the derivative of different types of functions and understand how they proceed from the general formula of the limit.

Understanding the concepts beneath a Lagrangian (for a maximization problem) and the envelope theorem that make them work took me a great deal of effort, but it was rewarding.

Quote from: Jamesmiain on July 16, 2009, 09:07:40 AM

Math is love, for me. I'm attracted to its objective nature, and its formulaic devices and methods. It always works, and if for some reason a method shows that something doesn't work (such as sequences and series tests), it's still by the process of elimination through mathematical means, not a failed formula.

Very well said!

TheVoxyn · « **Reply #27 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:44:59 AM »

I liked math in high school. But I really suck at the math they teach in uni, damn this is some hard stuff

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bob · « **Reply #28 on:** July 16, 2009, 10:52:29 AM »

Quote from: Jamesmiain on July 16, 2009, 10:34:15 AM

Quote from: bob on July 16, 2009, 10:05:30 AM
Calculus is wonderful.

That is all.

I officially love on you. *loves on you*

Edit: 11111th post in a math thread. Oh, the ironing.

You made a wise choice

kári · « **Reply #29 on:** July 16, 2009, 12:34:45 PM »

Quote from: Orbert on July 16, 2009, 10:42:42 AM

Quote from: XianL on July 15, 2009, 08:55:06 PM
1 = sqrt(1) = sqrt((-1)(-1)) = sqrt((-1)²) = -1

amiright?

No, it falls apart at the last Equals sign.

sqrt((-1)²) = -1 seems intuitive at first, but it's second degree, and you simplify under the radical first, so all it's really saying is that -1 is one of the square roots of 1. The other of course is 1, and there's no rule that says the roots must be equal.

XianL even used the fact that (-1)²=1 in the second step.

Jamesman42 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 16, 2009, 12:53:28 PM »

Thank you bob.

XianL · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2009, 02:48:06 PM »

Quote from: kári on July 16, 2009, 12:34:45 PM

Quote from: Orbert on July 16, 2009, 10:42:42 AM
Quote from: XianL on July 15, 2009, 08:55:06 PM
1 = sqrt(1) = sqrt((-1)(-1)) = sqrt((-1)²) = -1

amiright?

No, it falls apart at the last Equals sign.

sqrt((-1)²) = -1 seems intuitive at first, but it's second degree, and you simplify under the radical first, so all it's really saying is that -1 is one of the square roots of 1. The other of course is 1, and there's no rule that says the roots must be equal.
XianL even used the fact that (-1)²=1 in the second step.

I knew I shouldn't have posted that in a "Math Lovers" thread. Why did I think no one would call me out on it?

kári · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2009, 03:36:38 PM »

Anyone up for some "1,99.. = 2"?

axeman90210 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2009, 03:40:46 PM »

I was gonna say, who here remembers the .999... = 1 thread. I think it was all the way back on dt.net, and it was epic

kári · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2009, 03:41:49 PM »

It was also on the MP forum.

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Author Topic: The Math Lovers Club v. 3.1416 (Read 35694 times)