lovermuffin
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...OK, this is a rip-off of staffee's thread, but it got me thinking about numbers as well. And while, as a lover of language I feel that math is my arch-enemy, I believe that there is some beauty to be found in it.
So, as for my favorite number, it's 19.
My least favorite is 9.
It has been said that sevants, people afflicted by a certain form of autism, can actually "feel" numbers, that whole lanscapes can form in their minds about what numbers look like. Do you think that numbers can give people feelings? Do you think that concepts such as perfect and imperfect numbers, and male and female numbers exist, or are they, like the numbers themselves, just man-made concepts?
Here's a link to a story about a savant: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=830166&page=1
In a half-way unrelated topic, I think that there is something poetic about the second law of thermodynamics, the fact that everything moves toward increasing entropy, that the nature of things is to become more random. Accepting this could make one at peace with the universe...
What makes math beautiful? It's perfection? Do you feel similarly or differently?
So, as for my favorite number, it's 19.
My least favorite is 9.
It has been said that sevants, people afflicted by a certain form of autism, can actually "feel" numbers, that whole lanscapes can form in their minds about what numbers look like. Do you think that numbers can give people feelings? Do you think that concepts such as perfect and imperfect numbers, and male and female numbers exist, or are they, like the numbers themselves, just man-made concepts?
Here's a link to a story about a savant: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Health/story?id=830166&page=1
In a half-way unrelated topic, I think that there is something poetic about the second law of thermodynamics, the fact that everything moves toward increasing entropy, that the nature of things is to become more random. Accepting this could make one at peace with the universe...
What makes math beautiful? It's perfection? Do you feel similarly or differently?