RE: The Beauty of Math

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Yes, I get the proof. It is always like watching a magician. And I somehow understand what people find beautiful about math. The same goes for the mathematical trick behind public-key cryptography. But my brain can't accept math, without understanding what it actually is. It's like the exact opposite of what you described. My brain is all about lots and lots of details and complexity. You need to lack curiosity for being good in focussing on math, its kind of a gift.

This math is outside of the domain of statistics so there is no certainty.



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I love the magician analogy. There are also the same stages of apprenticeship, the unknowing viewer that thinks it is reall all magic, the apprentice who can understand some magic and knows how the art of Illusion works at its core and then the actual master who can see through all tricks and can even come up with his own original tricks. I feel like I am somewhat of an rogue apprentice :).

You need to lack curiosity for being good in focusing on math, its kind of a gift.

I have heard this argument before . Some people dont care about the details of the world that is surrounding them but they want to classify and order it, bring structure to it. Autism comes to my mind, but I never really looked deep into the topic. I am not sure I am really one of those people, even though my social intelligence is rather average, I still feel like I have a good amount of Empathie and I can be charming, but of course there is one mystery that no mathematician can solve and that is the mind of a woman ;) (Maybe it is just easier for me to know what a man thinks cause I am a man myself, but that does not sound cool)

This math is outside of the domain of statistics so there is no certainty.

Even though we are not in the field of stochastic the certainty is implicit. Certainty in a non-mathematical context is a achieved when you can proof something to be true beyond any reasonable doubt. In math everything you learn is true beyond any possible doubt. Therefore math is certain.

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