Watching a book full of numbers and letters and not understanding.
Something you avoid.
Something that should be illegal.
Something that makes me cry at 2:00 and then comming to a text and seeing a chapter that doesn't even exist in the whole scholarity and nobody have ever witnessed and then getting a 20 just because you wrote your name and didn't understand the language and the calculs the papers were talking about, and quiting wanting to be a doctor because school isn't for everyone.
A subject taught in school. It is the study of numbers and how they work. Shortened to "maths" in England or "math" in America. Many people hate it but some people (like me) love it. It is a requirement in the UK for most jobs.
1. A truly amasing subject enjoyed only by the people who understand it.
2. Science would not exist without mathematics.
3. "Mathematics is not magic... just logic" - my maths teacher ><
4. Some ignorant people believe that maths is a male subject (Pffft) =)
Doing a mathematics question:
Gather the important information; figure out what you are required to find; apply the formulae most apropriate to the question; calculate.
The feeling of getting the correct answer (expecially if you have toiled a great deal over it) is unbeatable.
The unified theorems and theories used in the analysis of order, sequence, pattern, form, space, figures, and numbers.
Algebra studies the existence and uniqueness of solution sets in equations and inequalities. Calculus, and its subset Differential Equations, further explores the properties of Algebra through use of derivatives, antiderivatives (integrals), and partial derivatives/antiderivatives. Game Theory involves the study of outcomes in scenarios, prediction, and optimization strategies in practical applications. There's many more branches, such as signal theory and other shit, but, quite simply, nobody, yes, mathematicians, NOBODY gives a flying fuck.
Mathematics, akin to chemistry and physics, is not about making friends. You need it a hell of a lot more than it needs you.
Contrary to scholastic doctrine, the majority of Mathematics must be purposely rigged in order to actually achieve a solution. Even more padding and precautionary measures must be added in order to make the solution somewhat understandable or practical.
Mathematics varies from the concrete applicational types, such as calculus and algebra, to the overly-abstract fields, such as linear theory. It's a necessary in anything scientific, and is useful in sweeping the academic debris away from fields in which they could do serious harm, safely into liberal arts studies. While we should all be thankful for that aspect, many people, author included, still despise Mathematics for being overly complicated due to lackidaisical teaching and god-awful textbook writers.
An addictive subject, where succeeding at solving one of its problems, increases your desire to solve more and more.
But...
It is also a depressant, where failing at solving one of its problems, gets you depressed and lowers your brain activity causing you to feel dumb.
So take care people...
Michael: Hey man, what are you doing?
George: Solving some math problems.
Michael: You need to cut off on mathematics man or we'll have send you to rehabilitation.