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by: gongli

I want to cry when people ask: what is math good for  and what do mathematicians do all  day? Do mathematicians  sit around solving quadratic equations or factoring polynomials? I want to cry because the power and beauty of mathematics is not more widely appreciated. People don't realize how mathematics pervades their everyday lives. Good God, what is math not good for? I find it hard to think of a subject to which mathematical analysis cannot be applied, well perhaps love. Perhaps love will always elude a precisse mathematical formalism. You can't make it through the day  without using  something that relies mathematics.
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#1  28 February 2007 - 05:41

 

Have you checked out this website?
http://www.ams.org/mathmoments
There is a bunch of excellent small posters on different areas where math is used and links to websites concerned with these. My chairman has then on and around his door.

mafidl

#2  27 June 2007 - 06:11

 

oh that's cool -- thanks

gongli

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