tim-from-pa

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I told you I was never good at maths. I can add, subtract, find the sum of a two numbers, divide... percentages but even as child fractions was a bother
If X = just did not like nothing like this.
Pie charts and all that stuff...

If you walk 4 miles how many steps would you take?::



If I can't do those simple ones, what about this.

Prove that a^n = b^n + c^n has no nonzero integer solutions for n>2.g
(This is supposed to be one of the most difficult unsolved maths problems._)
Perhaps you can try.
Pray tell me how would I be able to do something like that.. Lol. My head would hurt...
I HATE MATHS..

Give me English, reading, comprehension, debating and craft.

If I ever get married again, I want to be married to a mathmetician....maybe he will be able to teach me more than the basics..Lol.:p

 

[tim-from-pa]

Well, it sounds like you have a good enough handle on basic math needed for every day things. I think the theoretical stuff (like you highlighted in red) is only valuable enough for something specialized e.g. science, technology or whatever that most people do not use anyway unless they are in that field.

Sometimes we need certain math for special things and requires one type of math over the other. A person into that field of speciality becomes better at that sort of math than others. For example, I like to make sundials. A branch of mathematics called spherical trigonometry is most useful as opposed to say, statistics and probability. I can become rather rusty at statistics because it is not needed for sundials.

Mathematics is a language of sorts, and some "languages" for certain fields "locations" are used more than another just as if I visited France learning Chinese will not help as much as learning French.

 

[abide]

Well, it sounds like you have a good enough handle on basic math needed for every day things. I think the theoretical stuff (like you highlighted in red) is only valuable enough for something specialized e.g. science, technology or whatever that most people do not use anyway unless they are in that field.

Sometimes we need certain math for special things and requires one type of math over the other. A person into that field of speciality becomes better at that sort of math than others. For example, I like to make sundials. A branch of mathematics called spherical trigonometry is most useful as opposed to say, statistics and probability. I can become rather rusty at statistics because it is not needed for sundials.

Mathematics is a language of sorts, and some "languages" for certain fields "locations" are used more than another just as if I visited France learning Chinese will not help as much as learning French.

I hear you...for now I will stick to what I am good at..;)