one time, i asked my beloved dadzy why i had to learn to reduce fractions. he said:
"for two reasons. one is that you might only like reading books now, but you might want a math job in the future, and to let kids your age decide what they are going to do with their lives is criminal, really. you need options.
"the other reason is that different classes teach you different ways of thinking. like, when you read a book you can use not just your creative mind but your logical mind, because you've been developing it in math."
this is totally true. like, when i've been reading a book that has a very specific style, i always think to myself in that style afterward. its the same with math.
yesterday, after doing some intensive algebra, i started philosophizing and stuff. then, something occurred to me. everything is like algebra. if you want to kno why someone did something, you work it out like an algebra problem; the thing they did is x, and the things you kno about them that could be the answer are the numbers. get it? you have to isolate x to find out whats going on.
everything people do is bare human instincts (the variable) buried under piles of formal societal crap. for some reason, it has always been this way and always will be.
philosophy and algebra are almost the same. philosophy is just for people with broader minds. algebra is for the more simple-minded.
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omg omg omg yes yes yes i hav always thought this wayy!!!
I agree with almost everything you say, untill you got to the last line. There are those who think in variables and those who think in forms of people. does this mean those who think in people have better minds? Math is the route of people problems, but math isnt a sport for the simple minded. Math is somehting that many people cant do, because many people have trouble with thinking when it comes down to people. Those who can do math, understand people. I think anyway. But of course....not all math dudes underdstand people.
i didnt mean better or worse. what i meant was that algebra is much simpler than other things, when you get to a certain level.
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