Mental Math

MULTIPLICATION BY 11 AMAZING!!!

It's weird and I find it awkward that nearly every simple math problem has a weird trick to find out the answer. EVERY YEAR IVE BEEN DOING MATH THE LONG WAY! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US THIS EARLIER! In a weird way it reminds me of akeelah and the bee because of the one scene where laurence fishburn told akeelah that big words come from small words that just have different orgins. Every math problem in the world, is just a mixture of a lot of smaller math problems. Ive never thought of it like that. its interesting.

Happiness Revisited

"One of the major functions of every culture has been to shield its members from chaos, to reassure them of their importance and ultimate success"

I'm not sure exactly what the author meant by this but when I read it, what I took away from it was interesting. What I took away from it was that cultures aren't really there for individuality, its more there to make someone seem more important and feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. I thought that was interesting because I've never really thought about the concept of what a culture actually is, and its an interesting way to think about something.

the book of numbers chapter 1

Its not really a quote but i found it interesting that there were so many superstitions that were based around the number 1. Of course back in the day it made total sense that there are haunted numbers or numbers that are plain scary but in my time, its a really funny thought to think of a bad number. Moving on however, i also find it really interesting that people like Euclid made up rules of math that even today have not been able to be proven wrong. how smart do you have to be to do something like that and have people years later still follow your laws.

The book of numbers chapter 0.000000001

"We know that we're made from trillions of cells, each about 100,000 times smaller than our height, that's between about 7 and 30 micrometeres, or .000007 and .00003 meters in size. We also knkow that the viruses that infect our cells are a hundred times smaller than that, ranging from 20 nanometers to 300 nanometers viruses are the simplest form of life"

Have you ever heard the saying "its not the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog" well this is a perfect example. people have descovered how small our cells and viruses really are. its hard to think that some of the strongest people in the world die from sickness which is basically a small virus that is so small that there could be billions inside of you and you would never know. the fact that no matter how strong people grow, they can be brought to the ground because of something that is so much smaller than they are. its also crazy to think about how many cells actually make up the human body and we now have the mathematical ability to find out how big they are and how many we have. its a crazy thought.

the book of numbers chapter 0

"we had not thought of everything. Or to be more precise, we had not thought about nothing. Zero had not been invented." I can't fathom the world without zeros. Does that mean that multiples of 10 don't exist? Does that mean theres no negative numbers because theres no number of nothing to cross into the negative? it blows me away to think that there used to be a time where to have nothing is something that doesn't exist.

Gauss

"apart from his detailed discoveries, the cruz of Gauss's insight lies in the word intrinsic, for he showed how to study the geometry of a surface by operating only on the surface itself and paying no attention to the surround space in which it lies".

It sounds like he invented a piece of how to do geometry. Its crazy to imagine how smart and how good at math you have to be to come up with your own method of figuring out problems and having people believe you for it. its completely rediculous. If your smart enough to make an impact like that on the world of math, whats that say about me, or anyone else, what if i could do something like that.

Euler

"Though he was not himself a teacher, Euler has had a deeper influence on the teaching of mathematics than any other person."

I find this striking because it says that hes not a teacher at all but just the essesce of his creativity and smarts in math spread and taught the masses indirectly. Its hard to prove a point to people but even harder entirely for them to just watch how you think and how you do things and copy you. I just found it interesting because how could someone teach more about math than any other math teacher without themselves being a math teacher.

Leibnitz

"With every lost hour a part of life perishes".

This is Leibniz' motto. I like this quote because its like saying, lost time can never be remade and can never be relived. Its just a kinda deep quote and i like the idea that goes behind it. I think about my own life, there are plenty of times where i just sit there and waste time doing nothing when i could have been doing something to better myself. this quote tells me that i can never get that time back, its just all wasted now. kinda a scary thought if you think about it. its like you have all these days of your life to accomplish things but no moment will ever be the same as another, its just impossible. Its almost like your on a one way street, theres only one direction to go and you can never go back and fix something that you didnt do good on or that you want to relive.