can mathematics save our souls?
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yes.As we know, mathematics plays an important role in our life. Plus, when we think about it, everything around us use mathematical theory. This proves that english can saves our soul. Without it, we may live in stoneage.
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Nature is hardly mathematical !!\n\nTh
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Mathematics and music are two objective languages, which not only means you cannot lie, but everyone on earth can potentially understand you...and perhaps beyond!\n\nThe Pyramids and the Gothic cathedrals were built on the principles of Sacred Geometry...from the circle comes the tringle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc. all fundamentals in building!\n\nSnowflakes are an example of geometry in natrue. The symetry of human & animal forms, in biology, etc...
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I can be a whiz at Math, but not be a Mathematician, can't I?
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You might! Really.\n\nBut what it is important for right now is teaching your brain how to cope with complex systems that follow rigid rules.  If you can grasp & control that basic notion by mastering Calculus, you can do anything.\n\nTrust me!\n\nGood luck!
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Probably not\nThey have physics, literature, economics, peace, physiology and medicine and chemistry. Quotation from Wikipedia: There are several possible reasons why Nobel created no Prize for mathematics. Nobel's will speaks of prizes for those inventions or discoveries of greatest practical benefit to mankind, possibly having in mind practical rather than theoretical works.[6] Mathematics was not considered a practical science from which humanity could benefit (a key purpose for the Nobel Foundation).[citation needed]
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G'day Sasta Banana,\n\nThank you for your question.\n\nThere are benefits in learning mathematics assuming you have some aptitude. It gives you the skills hopefully to get a better job. It is very useful in finance or commerce. Similarly, it is key to studying advanced science or in technology as well as social sciences such as economics. There are a whole range of jobs where maths comes in handy from air traffic control or quantity surveying.\n\nRegards
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This has to do with the idea of mathematical neoplatonism.  This philosophy holds that their are 'universal truths', including mathematical concepts, waiting to be discovered.  If that is the case, then mathematics is not just an invention of humans, and would have also been discovered by any other race in the universe capable of space travel.
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Computers can do thousands of repetitious equations in the blink of an eye and can handle large numbers easily. This allowed mathmetitians to expand their range of study through enviromental simulations based on math like the trajectories of planets, time accelerated ecosystem studies, and most importaintly fractals.
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Your question is basically a philosophical  "Why is there math?"\nIt even borders to something massive as "Why is there a universe, why do we exist and what is the meaning of life?"\n\nThese are big questions and yes they probably have an answer tucked in the folds of the cosmos.  \n\nWithin our own realm of humanity we have such diversity and variety with crossover of culture.  Linguistics for example; so many languages, some like others but all different is a subject that describes humanity and different areas of the world.   But mathematics is a universal language, it is the same everywhere.  It is understandable to explain simple tasks of counting and measurement to the properties of physics.  Yes you know it does but you're asking why it does.  \n\nMathematics is about ideas: ideas of space, of time, of numbers, of relationships.
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I did a paper on the History of 0,1, and infinity for a grad school paper.  It worked out really well.  There is a lot of history of how different societies developed mathematics and accepted fractions, algebra.  Good luck!
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i like math myself. or maybe science...
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I don't know about the meaning of life, but math certainly can be used to take abstract ideas in real life and put them into a simple format.  That is a form of philosophy.  Math is just a broad term for using symbols to represent real life things and their relation to each other.
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It's a real "use-it-or-lose-it" skill, but most people find that their major problem in mathematics is a poor understanding of the basic ideas. And I do mean basic! Math is a harsh mistress, and those small 'easy' mistakes often trip people over more than larger problems! So take a crack at any problem areas you KNOW you have and stuff, stuff, stuff your brains with it!
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Unfortunately the number of sinners which directly correlates to the number of people in existence may approach infinity but we cannot reproduce so much as to get there. So really the n limit would never approach infinity as the asymptote would actually be just a hole. Now on that hole would be the n number of people (sins included) that could no longer reproduce and the function would simply end. Since we dont seem to have an explanation for this you assume the rest of the people in sins graph are infact imaginary and so on the entirely different dimension in which the graph plots those saved as well. Looking back from this plot of saved people who are also sinners the coexistent of the real point and the imaginary one allow the overriding of the imaginary to be forever held in the non sinner world without time as they are in fact plotted both within it. So all this goes to say that the answer is no. You can't get kicked out of heaven in the first place but if you were our function then could not simply end becasuse it is at the imaginary points which actually double back over the now no longer "function" that allow the heaven in the first place. So mathematics are not a tool of satan, though they have become a terribly unskillfully used tool of man to manipulate any situation :)
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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the body of knowledge centered on concepts such as quantity, structure, space, and change, and the academic discipline which studies them; Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions"[1] . It evolved, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[2]\n\nKnowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in ancient mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient India, with increased rigour later introduced by the ancient Greeks. From this point on, the development continued in short bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century where mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries leading to an acceleration in understanding that continues to the present day.[3]\n\nToday, mathematics is used throughout the world in many fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics to such fields, often dubbed applied mathematics, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and has sometimes led to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics for its own sake without having any practical application in mind, although applications for what begins as pure mathematics are often discovered later on.\n\n\nHistory\nA quipu, a counting device used by the Inca.\nEnlarge\nA quipu, a counting device used by the Inca.\n\n    Main article: History of mathematics\n\nThe evolution of mathematics might be seen to be an ever-increasing series of abstractions, or alternatively an expansion of subject matter. The first abstraction was probably that of numbers. The realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common was a breakthrough in human thought. In addition to recognizing how to count physical objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time — days, seasons, years. Arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), naturally followed. Monolithic monuments testify to knowledge of geometry.\n\nFurther steps need writing or some other system for recording numbers such as tallies or the knotted strings called quipu used by the Inca empire to store numerical data. Numeral systems have been many and diverse.\n\nFrom the beginnings of recorded history, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations relating to taxation and commerce, to understand the relationships among numbers, to measure land, and to predict astronomical events. These needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics, into the studies of quantity, structure, space, and change.\n\nMathematics since has been much extended, and there has been a fruitful interaction between mathematics and science, to the benefit of both. Mathematical discoveries have been made throughout history and continue to be made today. According to Mikhail B. Sevryuk, in the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, "The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75 thousand items are added to the database each year. The overwhelming majority of works in this ocean contain new mathematical theorems and their proofs."
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The real world contains minute details that can never be measured with total accuracy. But even though we can't do better than approximations, the unnatural precision in our made-up math enables us to at least better our understanding of things, as we better our approximations.\n\nI'm not sure what you mean by suggesting that math is "flawed". For one, math is not really all about numbers, it is about logic--the logic that first led us to reason that there existed transcendental numbers (also not sure what you mean by "unresolved"). I think part of the problem is that you've been led to a mistaken belief about what math purports to be. Math is not science--at least, it is certainly not a science of the natural world because a lot of real mathematics considers situations that are not considered to necessarily exist in reality. If anything, math is a science of ideas, and even that is waxing poetic a bit. As far as natural science is concerned, math is a conceptual tool--it can form the backbone of scientific theories but it is not science.\n\nExplaining the universe through math is "no more accurate than our explanations of god(s)"? How can you possibly hope to justify such a statement? Are you saying that theology, in the complete absence of math, could enable us to correctly land probes on distant planets, or design electronic computers, etc.?