Why math?

[Icarus]

I was thinking the other day, and I got to wondering why other people like math, and thus this thread. I would like to know why you like math, so only post if it will make a point, or reinforce a point made. Please note that anything along the lines of "Your people are weird" is off topic. If you feel the need to elaborate on your distaste for mathematics, please use the alternate thread, "Why not math?" Thank you.

[TurkishMonky]

because it's so orderly and neat. with english, it's grades are often based on the professor. Math (usually) is more concrete, so easier and more understandable to work with.

[Slater]

and there's always a correct answer.

[c_hunter]

Agree with both of ya, it's easy to understand, listen to the teacher, do some practices about the lesson, then you'll get it. I thought I had no chance with math that I'm weak about it but then realized that it's just easy if you listen and follow to your prof. or teacher.

[Swordguy]

there is allways a correct answer...if the fuction is not a fuction...no i don't know just allways loved the calenge of using math to figure out what i need and then doing it, stuff like that...jsut found it a lot of fun

[Nate]

It's pretty much been said here by others. Math is definitive. It is precise. History is written by the winners. English is ALL interpretation (besides the mechanics, I mean). It's structured, ordered, and precise...things that I'm NOT, but apparently like. XD;;

Also, if you know how to do one problem in math, you know how to do EVERY problem like that. Only the numbers change, the method does not. In English, however, everything is completely different, you have to start over from square one.

Plus you can't defend a wrong answer in math. It's easier to grade, because there's only one answer...as far as English goes, you could have twenty different answers, all correct (depending on how lenient your teacher is). And honestly, I'd rather not have no lenient my teacher is affect my grade. I'd rather have me being correct or not affect my grade.

[meboeck]

What they said.

Also, if you know how to do one problem in math, you know how to do EVERY problem like that. Only the numbers change, the method does not.

Exactly. That's why I like variables so much. You can just substitute in a number and it always works because the formuly itself is not changing. Even when math is complex, the basic rules are simple.

[SnoringFrog]

There are some parts of it that are quite interesting and entertaining to work out, just to say that you did sometimes. Every once in awhile I'll enjoy working out a problem just cause. IN the 6th grade, I made up a problem off the top of my head. I belive it was-- a half of a fifth of a third of a sixth of a tenth of a twelth of a thirty-fifth-- I said it a few times, the got to where I could rattle it off very quickly, but it began to bug me as to what the answer was. So one day, I sat down and figured it out. It comes out in the seven hundred thousands or so.

However, if I'm being forced to do math, like on a test or for homework, I don't like it at all.

[Technomancer]

Aside from the pure aesthetic and intellectual beauty of mathematics, my primary interest in the field is that it is the fundamental tool with which to describe the universe. From the level of subatomic particles to galaxies, to the individual neurons that combine to make thought, mathematics offers the most fundamental of insights into the nature of reality and provides a means by which we can harness that understanding for human betterment.

[Warrior4Christ]

^ What everyone else said.