After reading most of the replies in this thread everyone who thinks that maths is about answers needs to read A Mathematicians Apology: http://www.math.ualbert

After reading most of the replies in this thread everyone who thinks that maths is about answers needs to read A Mathematicians Apology: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/mss/misc/A%20Mathematician%27s%20Apology.pdf http://www.math.ualberta.ca/mss/misc/A%20Mathematician%27s%2... Mathematics has nothing to do with answers. It has everything to do with the most sublime and subjective beauty there is. The fact that this purely aesthetic system has says anything about reality should be more shocking than if we lived in a world where playing Beethoven's 5th symphony made it rain food from the sky: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html