I wouldn’t say it’s magic. It’s more like understanding how the forces that hold together our universe, and how we can harness these forces for our own gain.
It used to get recommended all over Stack Overflow, but I did really love reading Göedel Escher Bach. That book taught me to see math as a game or, equivalently, as purely exercises in shuffling symbols around, with intent.
That shift in outlook really unlocked the fun in math for me. I learned about category theory through Haskell shortly after, and got into number systems and the surreal numbers and quaternions after that. There’s so much neat math out there that the wall of calculus and linear alg really imposes right before all the good stuff.
I really want to learn this stuff. Its looks so much like magic
I wouldn’t say it’s magic. It’s more like understanding how the forces that hold together our universe, and how we can harness these forces for our own gain.
Arthur C Clarke would like a word.
I have never heard of him before. I recognize my comment isn’t unique, except in perhaps phrasing. Has Clarke said something within the same vein?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke’s_three_laws
The third law is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
I merely meant that the beauty of mathematics and natural science was a form of magic.
Yeah, with the people who keep misusing his quotes
Go on?
No, read more Clarke
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Looks like graph theory.
I wasn’t sure if Feynman Diagrams.
Although a second look I agree they don’t look right for that. Guess I should have taken more graph theory modules.
More like a game. Advance in math learning new game rules and mechanics, that let you explore more of the game space.
It used to get recommended all over Stack Overflow, but I did really love reading Göedel Escher Bach. That book taught me to see math as a game or, equivalently, as purely exercises in shuffling symbols around, with intent.
That shift in outlook really unlocked the fun in math for me. I learned about category theory through Haskell shortly after, and got into number systems and the surreal numbers and quaternions after that. There’s so much neat math out there that the wall of calculus and linear alg really imposes right before all the good stuff.
So Maths is just like Dark Souls? You should put that on the box.