speaking maths

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY[/youtube]

I've never been fluent in the language of maths, indeed, I was placed in a remedial class at school (before achieving the highest mark in our year), but I actually find this very understandable, and aesthetically beautiful.
I sound a right eejit when I try to be serious

It's certainly beautiful

That is wonderful.

Math is full of neat stuff like that. If you liked this, perhaps you might want to go get a program that renders fractals: There are many freeware and shareware programs out there that does this -- go google a bit for it.

But beware -- if you're the kind of person that gets totally "absorbed" by a pretty pattern, be prepared for such programs to "eat away" the hours...!

THAT WAS WAY COOL!

I have to wake up my daughter and show her this! (Saturday and she's still in bed at noon! )

I do wish he had let the text stay for a bit longer, as by the time I focused on the words and tried to read them all, the next view would start, so I missed a few words but got enough to understand what was said.

I'm going to look to see if there are more like this one!

I'm in a class right now where we talked about Mobius Transforms within the context of Complex number Calculus ("Complex Analysis"). There's some amazing stuff in math that gets hidden to the eyes of the masses because after the trauma of high school mathematics education, most people leave thinking that they hate the subject, whereas is doesn't really start to get interesting until Calculus, and it doesn't get the most interesting until after that.

It's almost as if the entire society was just taught the alphabet over and over and over from elementary school until late high school, and never taught to read--they were just forced to memorize the letters, and then when they leave high school, after learning the alphabet over and over for 12 years, they're left thinking that they hate poetry. It's a sad state of affairs.

Welcome to WrongPlanet JasonWilkes!
I didn't have any appreciation for mathematics until I started studying electronics.
Morris Klines book "Mathematics for Non-Mathematicians" is pretty good for the beginner.
Also good is Norman Crowhurst's "Mastering Technical Mathematics".

The title of this thread totally reminded me of OK Computer.

Karma Police, arrest this man
He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio.

It's incredible what people can do with math, but it just doesn't make any sense to me. This is probably the most frequent stereotype about Asperger's that I encounter. "Oh, you have Asperger's? You must be good at math...." Nope, I don't get it at all, barely got B's in math if I was lucky growing up, usually got C's and D's. I don't get the interest in it either, numbers just don't do it for me the way complex language and interesting words do.