Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Numbers are like . . .

Many thanks to Sarah at for this gem:

To me, the number system is like human life.
 First you have the natural numbers, the ones that are whole and positive,
like the numbers of a small child.
 But human consciousness expands, and the child discovers longing. Do you
know the mathematical expression for longing? Negative numbers. The
formalization of the feeling that you're missing something.
 Then the child discovers the in-between space between stones, between
people, between numbers, and that produces fractions.
 But it's like a kind of madness, because it doesn't even stop there. It
never stops. There are numbers that we can't even begin to comprehend.
Mathematics is a vast, open landscape. You head towards the horizon that
is always receding... like Greenland. And that's... that's what I can't
live without.

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Rachel Scott said...
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Rachel Scott said...

I'll have to agree to this statement without numbers there is nothing no computer, math, physics, chemistry nothing.

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Lilia Costales said...

It’s quite a way to describe how numbers and mathematics are to you. Many people naturally shy away from numbers, but these actually play an integral role in our daily life, whether you are a simple salary man or a company executive.

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dimdroid said...

Economics :)