Why do normalfags hate math so much? I love math, it's an elegant, self ordered system

Name
Email
Subject
Comment *
File	Select/drop/paste files here
* = required field	[▶ Show post options & limits] Confused? See the FAQ.

File: 1411350641503.png (111.7 KB, 600x600, 1:1, 600px-Unit_circle_angles_c….png)

Anonymous 09/22/14 (Mon) 01:50:41 b2ab6b No.8

Why do normalfags hate math so much? I love math, it's an elegant, self ordered system

Anonymous 09/22/14 (Mon) 18:01:14 865860 No.11

I feel the same way anon. If the world was suddenly forced to start over the only thing that would remain constant is math. math is love, math is life.

Anonymous 09/23/14 (Tue) 15:25:22 b93144 No.13

i was a big maths fan but in college its hard.
calculus 1

Anonymous 09/25/14 (Thu) 05:36:33 ed8453 No.55

I wonder what you guys think about a circle being PI and 2PI at the same time due to different formulas?

Like there's a movement to replace the 2PI formula with TAU.

Anonymous 09/25/14 (Thu) 13:11:36 accea8 No.56

Beauty is only recognizeable to me through real world results.

I remember when I got into computers I wanted to play a new videogame and the only way to do that was to get more RAM and a new graphics card. I fucked up and bought the wrong type of RAM. The computer case that I had was one of those stupid slimline ones that wouldn't fit my new graphics card inside. Slowly but surely I started to learn WTF I was doing and then the rewards were hours of fun playing on the thing.

Math never had that.

>"Can we build a bridge or a rocket ship?"
>"No, today we're going to answer questions out of a book."
>many years follow
>"fucking math is the bane of my life!"

To this day I still cannot into math

Anonymous 04/08/15 (Wed) 22:53:48 b2c128 No.193

>>56
this

there are equations out there that allow you to calculate the deltav of a rocket ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

are we tought this, no

Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 07:22:16 f0c37b No.194

I think one reason is that there are no shortcuts, and if you fall behind, you're going to have a bad time. I always tell students that introductory calculus itself isn't a complicated concept to get your head around - the only reason people find it difficult is because it relies on most things that you were taught between then and primary school.

Anonymous 04/13/15 (Mon) 03:24:40 ddea8c No.195

I love a priori.

Anonymous 05/07/15 (Thu) 21:34:44 66e5cf No.220

>>56

Yes, but school math is shit. Sadly, it's the foundation for real world stuff and college-level shit, so we can't outright take it away. It IS taught like shit, though.

>>8

Because irrational numbers and complex ones don't look elegant. Sure, they actually are, but normalfags hate big numbers, small numbers and irrational and imaginary numbers. Only counting is elegant for them, even if in fact i, e and many others are just as elegant and ordered as 1 or 3.

Anonymous 05/07/15 (Thu) 21:36:14 66e5cf No.221

>>220

Well, i and the rest of complex numbers aren't ordered, but yeah, my point still stands.

Anonymous 05/09/15 (Sat) 04:01:32 5fbcd6 No.222

>>220

Number theory is pretty great.

Anonymous 07/18/15 (Sat) 02:42:45 df8a37 No.256

Probably because it seems more esoteric than pagan magic. It's an entirely different language - I know a machinist who doesn't understand why I call two lines perpendicular or orthogonal when he simply says they are at 90 degrees to each other.

Anonymous 07/27/15 (Mon) 19:54:44 43a872 No.269

>>56

I think there's a pretty big misconception that your post embodies.

>I remember when I got into computers

you weren't doing computer science, you were building a computer.

Math is similar. Math doesn't actually tell you how to build a bridge or a rocket ship, that's physics and engineering, which apply mathematical concepts but aren't actually math. Nobody does actual math until they get to calculus, and by that time they've been trained by the bullshit of high school math to only look for the answer, instead of seeing the innate beauty of the process. Only a few do.

Anonymous 08/14/15 (Fri) 09:05:49 988939 No.287

Because high school - undergrad math is tedious and boring unless you have the autism to remember and practice everything you'll need for higher level math (Number theory, combinatorics etc.)

Anonymous 08/15/15 (Sat) 06:26:52 f8ce1a No.288

>>256

Dude that's general ignorance. I fucking blow at math but a LOT of people don't know much aside from basic arithmetic. It's just not used in their lives.

It's like English, they use what they have as best they can. They're not out to write books.

Anonymous 02/12/16 (Fri) 03:14:10 70cf36 No.329

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

Anonymous 02/29/16 (Mon) 22:46:15 f6cd5b No.331

File: 1456785975687.jpg (40.12 KB, 377x413, 377:413, 4c67fd900df2288d8b7f5ce1cf….jpg)

>>329

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting.