Math?
Let it be known that I am not a math person.
However, Mrs. Werner almost (and that is a very tentative almost) make me wish I was one. She raises the ponderous point that math is like poetry: It is a quest for truth and knowledge. Which I suppose is sort of true, and seeing how passionate she is about it is inspiring and everything, but it's so abstract. I understand that math until about the sixth grade has a practical, applicable use. But while poetry is a search for the nature of human life, and for the nature of beauty and freedom and what makes us who we are and how we perceive the world around us, math is a bunch of numbers that rarely have anything to do with anything. But then again, math is only truly appreciated by other mathematicians, in much the same way as porty is only really appreciated (or at least primarily) by poets.
I will never really be a math person, but I suppose that's not the point, precisely.
However, Mrs. Werner almost (and that is a very tentative almost) make me wish I was one. She raises the ponderous point that math is like poetry: It is a quest for truth and knowledge. Which I suppose is sort of true, and seeing how passionate she is about it is inspiring and everything, but it's so abstract. I understand that math until about the sixth grade has a practical, applicable use. But while poetry is a search for the nature of human life, and for the nature of beauty and freedom and what makes us who we are and how we perceive the world around us, math is a bunch of numbers that rarely have anything to do with anything. But then again, math is only truly appreciated by other mathematicians, in much the same way as porty is only really appreciated (or at least primarily) by poets.
I will never really be a math person, but I suppose that's not the point, precisely.