Greetings!
>> And the best facet about math is that it never gets
>> contradicted. Every other science has had a time when some
>> fundamental aspect was shown to be wrong, yet not in mathematics. You
>> learn something, like 2+2=4, and it stays true forever.
There aren't very many fields where you can sit around frying your brain
trying to figure out the deeper meaning of the square root of -1, or about
pi, or that sort of thing. Quantum physics can come close, but about as far
into that as I got was the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Of course, you can fry your brain thinking about the meaning of life, too.
Numbers just have this mystique about them.
Nicolaa
From: "Susan Carroll-Clark" <nicolaa@columbus.rr.com>
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