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Is it only non-americans that talked about Maths. I am 31.78 years old and I never heard anyone talk about maths until i came on wrongplanet. I only talked about math. I wonder if those aspies also like to hunt for deers.

31 years and 284 or 285 days old in other words...
Do you attend college, otherwise have you considered doing so?

I've been to college, I graduated with a BA and it will be 10 years in may that i graduated.

I'd talk more about the beautiful subject of math if there weren't so many people hating it. But my friends acknowledge that I understand things best when things are put in the context of mathematics. Calculus is my favorite part of math, despite what people say about it being hard. That's what I don't understand.

"Maths" is common usage in most English-speaking countries aside from the US. Americans are blissfully unaware of that fact, since they ignore the rest of the world.

Do you like to talk about mathematical theories? Otherwise how else do you talk about math? I tried to teach myself calculus awhile back but then I got busy teaching myself French and forgot about it. PI is one of my favorite movies.

I discuss how to solve different problems, the beauty of math, and I guess sometimes theories. Though it's mostly the former.

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"Math" is a huge subject to state that you want to talk about...

Are you speaking simple arithmetic? Algebra? Geometry? Calculus? DiffEQ? Chaos Theory? Particle Physics? Logic?... the list goes on nearly endlessly as pretty much anything that has anything to do with the world has some math component.

Personally, I had trouble with words and sentances until I took an advanced (read Masters Level) series of courses on Logic which boiled the whole thing down to mathematical equations of unions, subsets, supersets and the like. But that is far different than solving for X when X = Y^2 +9z^3 and the slope of the intersecting line is Y= Z+3 or some such sillyness as that.

Math is an intriguing discipline. Unfortunately, my mathematical skills are mediocre at best, so I decided not to pursue it at a university level, but I still find it of great interest from a passive perspective. I first viewed mathematics as not merely some dry too but as a scientific body when I was fifteen, while reading Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Millions. I even spent a few years idolizing Paul Erdos, and I have a lot of respect for those that study and are passionate about the subject.

Paul Erdos is quite an interesting guy. I remember he once had a metaphor for saying that God had a huge book of mathematical proofs, but was too selfish to share it with us. And I also heard he slept through this one lecture or conference, but someone mentioned a math subject that interested him, so he woke up and wrote the solution on the board. Or something like that.

Mathematics is extremely useful in sciences. It's lesser and probably easier to understand concepts are used over and over again in statistics, economics and businesses, and without math, they could not function. Despite being an abstract concept itself, it certainly displays itself a lot in reality. And the best part of math is the logic. It just makes so much sense when you understand it that I find it difficult not to appreciate its beauty. Any kind of logic and problem solving you might learn in math is extremely useful in problem solving for almost any other kind of situation. And that's also why I like it.

This may sound odd, but I like to learn math as I need it for the job or for a personal project. Sometimes I browse Yahoo! science for tidbits. However, it is difficult for me to learn math. I have symptoms of ADD - inattention variety so I have to go over things more than once. I have a hard time memorizing things, too. I failed at calculus in an engineering curriculum, then passed it with high marks in a technology curriculum at the same college. The engineers had more equations to memorize and I couldn't keep up.

I would like to think that math shouldn't be about memorizing, but more about understanding it. And this is why I prefer it to dry subjects like history or some sciences. If you can understand how a math proof or theorem works, you simply don't have to memorize it--it will come to you when you go through the proof or theorem again.

However, you usually don't have time to do this on a test, so you might end up memorizing the proofs or their results so that you can solve the problems, but by the time you get around to doing the test, you should have done so many practice or assignment problems that doing it would be like second nature to you anyways. Of course, doing practice problems is the only way to get better at math. You can prefer not to attend any lectures and still ace a math course. Not that I'm recommending that method though; that depends on how you prefer to study.

I find mathematics extremely interesting, though my skill level, unfortunately, does not match my enthusiasm.

Not that this can't be changed, however. I'm in a lower-level college math class since my placement scores were low, but I plan on taking math courses during the three summer semesters, which would put me at the same level as the mathematics majors.

I'm a biology major currently and loving it, but given my interest in mathematics, I'd like to keep my options open, you know?

I don't think I'm great great at it either. I know I'm not a genius, but it was still fun to do it.

I had some fun solving this problem over the weekend:

You have two billiard balls, and on a 60 floor building, you want to know which floor the ball will first break at. How do you find out which floor the ball first breaks with the smallest number of trials, and using those two balls only?