Two hours of Facebook later, and I have exactly one test complete.
5 / 66
I have come to the conclusion that mathematicians are like computer programmers, who simply delight in confusing the common man. Proof:
"In scientific thought we adopt the simplest theory which will explain all the facts under consideration and enable us to predict new facts of the same kind. The catch in this criterion lies in the world "simplest." It is really an aesthetic canon such as we find implicit in our criticisms of poetry or painting. The layman finds such a law as dx/dt = K(d^2x/dy^2) much less simple than "it oozes," of which it is the mathematical statement. The physicist reverses this judgment, and his statement is certainly the more fruitful of the two, so far as prediction is concerned. It is, however, a statement about something very unfamiliar to the plainman, namely, the rate of change of a rate of change."-Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
In other words, all complex math is simply an ego-stroking method of transforming perfectly good common language into something complex and unintelligible to all but the educated few. Deductions: 1) English is by far the superior subject. 2) For all that Gus may be the stereotypical "trailer trash", he is in fact a tool of the aristocracy used to crush the rest of us. I blame him for Stalin. And BP.
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