Time for a poll

[chickenfeet]

I needed an excuse to use the user pic voted most popular by a random sample of sentient beings. I've also had some interesting on and off line convos and comments about math(s) recently so I thought what we really need is more ticky boxes. Lo, I bring you the great math(s) poll!

[Poll #826509]

Comments

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

I have to qualify my responses here. I'm no mathematician. I don't understand much, although it was my favourite thing at primary school when I was little. But whether I understand or not, someone talking maths (or physics) at me is hott hott hott (if they can cope that I probably have no idea what they're talking about). One day I might meet the special person who can unlock the barriers in my head and let the essential maths juice flood in, and everything will fall into place, and there'll be world peace and flowers and ice cream for everyone.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

This is really interesting. See my reply to asrana in this thread. Your comment suggests the existence of people who intuit the wonder of mathematics without actually having the technical skills to go there. I would never have guessed that such people existed.

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

In some ways, it's a bit akin to magic (except with the advantage that sometimes it really works). When someone talks maths at me, sometimes I get a momentary little inkling of what they're on about, and it stretches my brain a bit letting some fireworks in, and that's a pretty powerful aphrodisiac. I do wonder, though, if I did have a better grasp of maths if that would kill the romance and mystery of it rather than enhance it. But that would be a one way path of discovery - no turning back.