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there must be a rule that bans using “marvelous, magic, mysterious, never seen before, miraculous, genius, shocking …” words used in math posts. There’s nothing
by behnamoh 3y ago
there must be a rule that bans using “marvelous, magic, mysterious, never seen before, miraculous, genius, shocking …” words used in math posts. There’s nothing marvelous about any of this—it’s just math. Imo it’s better to let people face math head on than try to sugar coat it and click bait them into liking math.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI will continue to marvel at it, though.
- Koshkin 3y ago> just math I don't know what this is supposed to convey. Modern mathematics is one of the most amazing, marvelous, beautiful etc. achievements of the mind. I wish more people could appreciate that.
- galaxyLogic 3y agoThe marvel of Math is in its non-obviousness. Obvious truths are not marvelous but non-obvious ones are. "Magic" is also a word we can use about Math because we know no true magic exists. Therefore when something is said to be "magic" we know it means something "looks like magic". For the Magician (/Mathematician) it of course doesn't look like magic because they clearly understand and see how it works. So, you are perhaps the Mathematician/Magician for whom it doesn't look like magic but for the rest of many of us it does. We are even willing to pay for the ticket to see magicians perform their "magic" and to marvel at it.
- mbork_pl 3y ago> Mathematician/Magician Or mathemagician. ;-)
- galaxyLogic 3y agoGreat word
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