Daniel · 11 answers · 3y

What do you find weird about math?

Math so often tells more about nature than we did put in and it turns out that the extra results nobody expected or wanted tell really something new about nature.

I always found math boring. I did not know how abstract and beautiful and weird it was until grad school. I gained a new appreciation for it.

There's theorems people haven't been able to figure out, but you plug in numbers and they work.

The things they can do/work out using mathematics. Like sending a thing into space (Voyager, for example) and knowing it’ll go where they want it to go because they’ve worked it all out beforehand - gravitational slingshots etc. I mean, where do you even begin to work something like that out?

That so much complexity and so many mathematical "truths" can be derived from such a simple set of basic axioms. Also, maybe, how effective it is in physics as a tool for modeling the world..

That most teachers seem not really talented to make their students understand and enjoy the subject.

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