IMO it's a shame that many people don't like the world's most exciting adventure due to uninspired teachers and/or a boring curriculum. Math addicts are never bored and could even endure solitary confinement. Btw., you can also explain linear algebra using the Pythagorean theorem and a cuboid.
Enthusiastically agree with all the above, *except* the claim about mathematicians easily enduring solitary confinement. Mathematicians are still just human, & solitary is specifically designed (over at least hundreds of years) to break humans. Torture is not child’s play.
I'm sorry for a misunderstanding. I certainly didn't want to trivialize torture, but rather just emphasize that many people who love mathematics know absolutely no boredom, even when they're completely alone.
I understand you meant no harm. I hold no hard feelings. But, thank you for promptly clarifying anyway. ❤️ I just worry that ppl really don’t know how deadly solitary actually is. In the US it is practiced every day, even in jails where poor ppl are confined awaiting defense from mere accusations.
Many of us thrive, even at some length, in the intellectual context of voluntary solitude. This is why I wanted to say first that I am enthusiastically supportive of nurturing capacity for such enriching mental playgrounds & every opportunity to joyfully play in them. TY for letting me clarify.🥰
Show me a ‘proof’ and I’ll believe it (no matter what you just said) … that’s how you marry science w religion. 🤣
Religion serves the clergy's self-enrichment (Numbers 28) and self-aggrandizement (Leviticus 21:8). For this to work, science has to obey and must be suppressed . It is therefore just like in a marriage recommended by all leading religions, in which the woman is oppressed by her owner (sic).
That’s fascinating…I never knew any of that stuff. Today’s pi day… mathematicians must be having a field day (literally). 🎉🥳🎊👏🏼🍾🍻
You don't learn this at Sunday school, do you? Or this: 1 Cor 16:1-4 with the invention of the convenient install payment for donations to "the poor saints of Jerusalem". Or this: YHWH, the famous Tetragrammaton, equals Y+HWH with HWH happens to be "Eve", MOTHER of all living (Genesis 3:20). Oops.
![source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2016%3A1-4&version=NCB The screenshot reads: VIII: Final Recommendations and Greetings[a] Chapter 16 The Collection. 1 Now in regard to the collection for the saints,[b] you should follow the instructions I gave to the churches of Galatia. 2 On the first day of every week,[c] each of you should set aside and save whatever you can spare, so that when I come to you, no collections will have to be taken. 3 And when I arrive, I shall send those who have been approved by you with letters of recommendation to deliver your gift to Jerusalem. 4 If it seems advisable that I should also go, they will accompany me. Read full chapter Footnotes 1 Corinthians 16:1 The collection for the Church of Jerusalem—the “saints”—had an important place in Paul’s outlook, because it was a sign of communion between the Churches that originated in the Gentile world and the mother Church that had grown up at the heart of Judaism (see Acts 24:17; Rom 15:25-26; 2 Cor 8–9; Gal 2:10). 1 Corinthians 16:1 The saints in Jerusalem were obviously in dire need—possibly as a result of the famine recorded in Acts 11:28 (about A.D. 44 or 46) or the persecution to which they were subjected (Acts 8:1). 1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of every week: i.e., Sunday, the Lord’s Day (see Acts 20:7; Rev 1:10). Each of you should set aside: each Sunday Christians were to bring what they had set aside for the Lord’s work. It was then probably collected at the worship service. Justin Martyr indicates in his Apology (1:67-68) that during his day (c. A.D. 150) offerings were brought to the altar on Sundays.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omyr27fmzj3phbagch4sqyub/bafkreihme5qr6kjd36zsgubn46yftptimheqozku33h7hze4sidth4vdq4@jpeg)
If you'd like to brag: The fraction 103993/33102 is slightly larger than 3.141592653. ; ) Source: "Algorithmen für regelmäßige Kettenbrüche" (Algorithms for Regular Continued Fractions) Bachelor's thesis by Stefan Scheel Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W. Koepf University of Kassel October 2005, page 28