Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Dim light findings

Well it seems like sometimes we find an easy way to do things. Such as simple math we take it for granted. My math professor keeps talking about the early mathematicians Such as archimedes and Euler. Most poeple know archimedes but this dude euler apparently went blind during working on math. HE would work for days at a time days and days and days he would rest by falling asleep right next top his desk. Wake up and keep working finding the most abstract of ideas with numbers. Now that im a little wiser i have learned that math really does have truth to its values. LIke these statements of x equals this or that are true and with the given y values you can make a graph which is cool like this one time i worked for hours just to graph an elephant on a TI 83 calculator it was freakin awesome. So now math is slowly losing the "why" (pun intended) and becoming something more concrete and easier to understand i wish i had just known all this stuff in high school then maybe i would have known what to do when finding that the curve of a parabola looks better when you follow the exponetiation rather than just connecting the dots. THere was this one russian lady namede alexandrof thats how my teacher spelled it anyway she came up with all this thoery and mathematical equations so much that the russian government thought she was crazy and she spent about half her life in the insane asylum and there she still got to work on math producing so many ideas and making them true staements of numbers. She passeed away there sometime afterward her lifes work was kept by the asylum realeased and all those who committed her could do was say sorry but her lifes work and findings dwell in textbooks around the world. Now it seems hard to try and find something even remotely close to new but the world seems to lazy or that may just be america or just the people im surrounded by i really hope its just the people im surrounded by. Well how about those guys trying to recreate the big bang thoery, my mom is convinced the world is gonna collapse in itself. LIke Stephen Hawking would let that happen. When we do discover something new and it becomes the latest craze well just be gald to say the human race still has it in them to do something amazing.

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