'Bushwhacked'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
But some amazingly sexy women flee The Math
offering to explain the relationship between trigonometric fonctions and the unit circle in language anyone could understand. The horror in her face as she said, "Really. Truly. No." just about broke my heart.
Over Christmas break I asked my brother, who's an engineer, to explain string theory to me. That was actually a very interesting and fun discussion. Science & math were always my strongest subjects in school.
I try to share the love of mathematics gently, but for some people there's just too much early trauma involved.
Ah, but there are *other* women (who shall remain nameless but might be curly blondes who are good with words) who are somewhat ignoramuses when it comes to math and yet still find brains Teh HOTT, and award bonus points if the brainy person can actually make the math comprehensible.
What Steph said.
I used to have a mathy sort of brain, but I've been away from it so long I think it's atrophied.
Ah, but there are *other* women (who shall remain nameless but might be curly blondes who are good with words) who are somewhat ignoramuses when it comes to math and yet still find brains Teh HOTT, and award bonus points if the brainy person can actually make the math comprehensible.
I admire the ability to do The Math (Emily is my hero) but I really hear "Blah..blah..blah...Erin...blah...blah." Science, on the other hand, is neato, and except for the mathy parts, I love to hear about it. Escpeacially physics. Physics is sex-ay.
It's amazing how much more I like math and science now that I'm not forced to do a gazillion word problems.
Word. I just had to Do Math for this job I applied for, teaching for Princeton Review for the GRE, and my brain just went "ARRGGHHH!"
I tried, I really did, but I had a 25 minutes time limit, and geometry? Algebra? PI and square roots, for fucks sake?! NO WAY.
If anyone could actually explain the number i to me in such a way that I could comprehend an actual practical application of it, I would swoon.
Yes, I said "the number i." Somehow, i is a number. I even know what it is -- the square root of -1. What I don't get is what it can be used for. Because it's NOT REAL!
beathen needs to change her tag, and also come visit me.
This has nothing with her being good at math.
Okay, maybe a little.
ETA: Well, crap, she has now changed her tag. Now to take care of the other part.
I think the number i was developed to torture young minds and scare us away from anything math related. I still like math despite this because that section of math class was blanked out in my brain for self-preservation.
Yes, I said "the number i." Somehow, i is a number. I even know what it is -- the square root of -1. What I don't get is what it can be used for. Because it's NOT REAL!
Nope, it's imaginary. It does not, in fact, exist. But it helps you get from point A to point B sometimes. It's a mathematical wormhole.