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How I Became a Mathematician – It’s Not As Serious As You Think
I don’t know. I guess it all happened back in high school when a friend of mine called out in algebra class how much he hated logarithms. After that remark, I figured I was in for trouble as I was your average Sylvester Stallone look-alike, and certainly not what you would consider the “math nerd” type. At seventeen I got into bodybuilding. I had the swagger of an Italian kid cast out of the “Lords of Flatbush.” Who would have thought I would ever become a mathematician? But become one, I would.
Even though I had the type-cast build and look, my brain was different-I mean wired differently. At fifteen I started reading Isaac Asimov, and his two books, the “Human Body” and the “Human Brain,” both had a significant impact on me. These books taught me a love for science and soon thereafter I discovered that I just loved learning: the more curious and perplexing, the better. Mysterious things like math soon started getting my attention. Yet I felt totally inadequate to take on such a daunting challenge as to become learned in a field like mathematics. But this I would do.
The Secret Science of Numerology
Numerology is the ancient secret science and psychology of numbers. Before the language of words, the language of numbers existed. The caveman would count the number of times the sun came up and therefore understand what a day meant.
Counting evolved into drawing a number of pictures to make sense of a primitive world and finally we evolved using speech and the written word to communicate further. Writing a number, a word or drawing a picture are all forms of symbolism and all represent something. Before the scientists used numbers just for ‘mathematics’, numbers were known to have meanings that belonged to the secret science of Numerology.
Mathematics – The Concept
Some of us may find mathematics difficult where others of us a passion. Mathematics can be found in our everyday lives and is a subject which we cannot avoid: in our purchases, in cooking ingredients, when making automobiles, the stock market – every time anything is given a value, measured or calculated. Its practical application is indisputable. So what is mathematics after all?
Mathematics is a science of numbers, equations, functions and graphs and its most important components are the individual, purely mathematical fields, such as arithmetic, algebra, mathematical analyses and geometry.