13 April 2012
All mathematicians are thinkers. The little cogs in their skulls are working overtime, trying to work out an equation or problem they'd seen that day. I for one always asked in maths lessons 'when am I going to use this in my life?' It's inevitable of course, that without maths - the world would be a wholly different place. Maths makes greedy vultures out of businessmen and women. Maths makes worrying scientists and technicians panic their formula is correct. Maths even helps introduce us to not so welcome friends in the world - diseases, theories or conspiracies. Maybe in some instances... We go too far. Do we really need to know all the digits of pi just to draw a circle? Do we really need to know where, when and how the world will end? Over thinking will only give us an itchy head. And after all, curiosity killed the cat. Let's not follow him.
Pythagoras' Curse • Opuss № I