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

[liv]

Definitely numerate, enough to assume you mean mathematics rather than arithmetic, enough to be able to follow mathematical arguments in scientific contexts. But by the standards of mathematicians I'm clearly not one. If you prefer it in terms of qualifications, I took the double A Level and 4 terms' worth of "maths for chemists" at uni. (Biologists with double A Level took chemists' maths, chemists with double A level took physicists' maths...) I expect it's about equivalent to the first 2 weeks of an actual maths degree, though, so I can't exactly call it a degree with significant maths.

I like maths, but on the same level I find lots of other topics interesting to read about. I'm not passionate about it, and I'm glad I realized this before I embarked on a maths degree. The thing is, you need to know quite a lot of maths to even be interested in the latest developments, and I do have at least that much background.