Question:
-This seems really easy, how long did it really take them to write this book (or paper)??
Quote:
-"Okay, take a moment to practice your new skill, an then start showing it off."
Comment:
I feel like this is someting that could be mastered really quick. And.. yeah. easy.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
50 Helpful Tips
SO here are my comments:
Alot of this stuff I had heard before from other people in different situations and different ways. But just seeing it on a paper, and clumped together with so many other things that seemed like they would help my life, I took it into consideration a little more. The one about dreams, i considered alot. Taking a breather, and looking at the world in a more positive light seemed more helpful now. 'cause my outlook on school has been so much more negative, and so reading this kinda motivated me to look at it more positively.
But yeah, everything I read, I pretty much took into consideration and ait was an enjoyable reading. SO i was happy.
Alot of this stuff I had heard before from other people in different situations and different ways. But just seeing it on a paper, and clumped together with so many other things that seemed like they would help my life, I took it into consideration a little more. The one about dreams, i considered alot. Taking a breather, and looking at the world in a more positive light seemed more helpful now. 'cause my outlook on school has been so much more negative, and so reading this kinda motivated me to look at it more positively.
But yeah, everything I read, I pretty much took into consideration and ait was an enjoyable reading. SO i was happy.
Friday, February 11, 2011
QQC .the #1
Quote:
"At the same time young Buddha was learning many of the truths that would become Buddhism, the Pythagoreans were studying the universe through numbers."
How can you understand nature and its occurences with a method that was man-made??
I find it ironic how humans invented numbers and its number system, and they want to use that to study something so 'real' in a way. I don't really know how to explain it. Like... scientists use telescopes to see the universe and better understand it that way. Some scientists that want to know more about their environment go camping and get closer to what they're studying. Studying the universe through numbers seem outrageous to me... Well maybe not outrageous, but it doesn't sound very intelligent. It sounds like you'd run into a lot of walls of mystery.. Like... I don't know how to really explain what I'm trying to say, but yeah. I don't even like the number one. 3 is a better number. Fareal. :)
"At the same time young Buddha was learning many of the truths that would become Buddhism, the Pythagoreans were studying the universe through numbers."
How can you understand nature and its occurences with a method that was man-made??
I find it ironic how humans invented numbers and its number system, and they want to use that to study something so 'real' in a way. I don't really know how to explain it. Like... scientists use telescopes to see the universe and better understand it that way. Some scientists that want to know more about their environment go camping and get closer to what they're studying. Studying the universe through numbers seem outrageous to me... Well maybe not outrageous, but it doesn't sound very intelligent. It sounds like you'd run into a lot of walls of mystery.. Like... I don't know how to really explain what I'm trying to say, but yeah. I don't even like the number one. 3 is a better number. Fareal. :)
QQC 0.000001 reading
Question:
When dividing, when they came to the part where they needed a decimal, did they just stop (since they didn't use decimals at the time)??
Quote:
"Although this is very close to the idea of adding a decimal point and writing fractions as decimal fractions, it took nearly a thousand years before a Syrian mathematician figured it out."
Comment:
Where's all Leibniz, Einstein, and all of them. Did they just stop, or give up. So they made the foundations of math, and then people from other countries made it simpler and everything. Hmm. Okay. And the wooden Abacus tool looks so complicated. I think I had one of those when I was younger. I didn't know it was actually for math. I was playing with it the wrong way, but thats cool.
When dividing, when they came to the part where they needed a decimal, did they just stop (since they didn't use decimals at the time)??
Quote:
"Although this is very close to the idea of adding a decimal point and writing fractions as decimal fractions, it took nearly a thousand years before a Syrian mathematician figured it out."
Comment:
Where's all Leibniz, Einstein, and all of them. Did they just stop, or give up. So they made the foundations of math, and then people from other countries made it simpler and everything. Hmm. Okay. And the wooden Abacus tool looks so complicated. I think I had one of those when I was younger. I didn't know it was actually for math. I was playing with it the wrong way, but thats cool.
Friday, February 4, 2011
QQC all.about.numbers.
Quote:
"In many tribes around the world, where people counted mainly using their fingers (and sometimes all kinds of other body parts), the words they used for the numbers they wanted to express were mainly to do with the use fo fingers and hands."
Questions:
Did the evolution of numbers start with the growth of population and need for more things?
Comments:
I never really looked at how numbers came about. Back then, in the old beginners day, it would be annoying to not know how much of something you had. It would be easy to steal small things that were by quantity because no one would have a proper wqay of accounting for all they had. How did they consider someone rich or poor, if they couldn't count. They didnt know how much someone had of anything. The use of rocks and sticks for counting how many people cae back in a war was smart, to an extent. Like... what if one of the rocks broke? So now you have more rocks than you people, so you would think that someone died because I doubt they accounted for the exact rock they put down. Crazy though. Numbers really are an iportant thing in everyday life, and we use them everywhere. We count everything, even when we don't know we do. Like now thinking back on it, I count everything all the time. To measure and account for things... So yeqh. But not having a specific number code for everything would make life easier. Especially when you wanna know your bank statement or need to pay a billl, how would you represent such large numbers? Hmmm. Makes me think...
"In many tribes around the world, where people counted mainly using their fingers (and sometimes all kinds of other body parts), the words they used for the numbers they wanted to express were mainly to do with the use fo fingers and hands."
Questions:
Did the evolution of numbers start with the growth of population and need for more things?
Comments:
I never really looked at how numbers came about. Back then, in the old beginners day, it would be annoying to not know how much of something you had. It would be easy to steal small things that were by quantity because no one would have a proper wqay of accounting for all they had. How did they consider someone rich or poor, if they couldn't count. They didnt know how much someone had of anything. The use of rocks and sticks for counting how many people cae back in a war was smart, to an extent. Like... what if one of the rocks broke? So now you have more rocks than you people, so you would think that someone died because I doubt they accounted for the exact rock they put down. Crazy though. Numbers really are an iportant thing in everyday life, and we use them everywhere. We count everything, even when we don't know we do. Like now thinking back on it, I count everything all the time. To measure and account for things... So yeqh. But not having a specific number code for everything would make life easier. Especially when you wanna know your bank statement or need to pay a billl, how would you represent such large numbers? Hmmm. Makes me think...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Gauss QQC
Quote:
"At the university, Gauss was attracted by philology but repelled by the mathmatics courses, and for a time the direction of his future was uncertain."
Question:
He was repelled by the mathematics course, but he became one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. So... did he think what he was learning in school was lower than his brain capabilities? Like... was the school math lessons too easy for him? Or was it just that they weren't teaching what he was more concerned about at the time?
Thought:
I feel like this book has said the same about every person mentioned so far. EInstein, Leibniz, Gauss, etc. Like... 'he is the greatest mathemitician of all time." I guess in a way, it could be true, sorta. No, I mean they could have all contributed something important to the history of math, but they couldnt all be the most important people of all time. They spent their life on math... focusing, thinking, wondering, trying to figure out, etc. But they couldnt have all been the best. But anyways, Gauss is 'special'. Like that 'Leibniz' guy. I think I'm talking about the right one. Liebniz taught himself Latin at the age of 8. And Gauss discovered the prime number theorem at the age of 14 or 15. That was smart for a little kid. And thinking about that makes me wonder, so apparently these kids were in school. Or maybe they were, but focused only on the math portion. But was an obsession with math passed down through the family. Like was Leibniz and Gauss's family obsessed with math and its theories as well. I feel like figuring out math, or being a mathematician back in those days was lika an honor, was like little kids way of being famous back then. So were these kids thinking about th fact that this was going to make them famous, or were they legitly curious about this math stuff? I don't know. It's just crazy to me. Like what drives them to be good, and try their hardest to figure out math? Curiousity?? And... Hmmm... if so, that's good for them. Smarty arties.
"At the university, Gauss was attracted by philology but repelled by the mathmatics courses, and for a time the direction of his future was uncertain."
Question:
He was repelled by the mathematics course, but he became one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. So... did he think what he was learning in school was lower than his brain capabilities? Like... was the school math lessons too easy for him? Or was it just that they weren't teaching what he was more concerned about at the time?
Thought:
I feel like this book has said the same about every person mentioned so far. EInstein, Leibniz, Gauss, etc. Like... 'he is the greatest mathemitician of all time." I guess in a way, it could be true, sorta. No, I mean they could have all contributed something important to the history of math, but they couldnt all be the most important people of all time. They spent their life on math... focusing, thinking, wondering, trying to figure out, etc. But they couldnt have all been the best. But anyways, Gauss is 'special'. Like that 'Leibniz' guy. I think I'm talking about the right one. Liebniz taught himself Latin at the age of 8. And Gauss discovered the prime number theorem at the age of 14 or 15. That was smart for a little kid. And thinking about that makes me wonder, so apparently these kids were in school. Or maybe they were, but focused only on the math portion. But was an obsession with math passed down through the family. Like was Leibniz and Gauss's family obsessed with math and its theories as well. I feel like figuring out math, or being a mathematician back in those days was lika an honor, was like little kids way of being famous back then. So were these kids thinking about th fact that this was going to make them famous, or were they legitly curious about this math stuff? I don't know. It's just crazy to me. Like what drives them to be good, and try their hardest to figure out math? Curiousity?? And... Hmmm... if so, that's good for them. Smarty arties.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Euler Reading QQC
Quote:
My quote is pretty much the majority of the 3rd and 4th page.
Question:
It's like he sat at home thinking of mathematical amazements.
Me:
Math was the majority of his life. and it makes me think back to the readings about Einstein and Leibniz. Did these guys have legit jobs? I think I read Leibniz was in school. But how are they making a living. Do they think about math while theywere working? I don't know, but to me, it seems like they made math their life. Well Leibniz was actually a genius in a lot. But... Euler for real made math a goal. He was smart with publishing it, and all his ideas, unlike Einsteins ideas. EInstein hid his brilliance and intelligence. Euler's job was his math books then in the end... To me atleast.
My quote is pretty much the majority of the 3rd and 4th page.
Question:
It's like he sat at home thinking of mathematical amazements.
Me:
Math was the majority of his life. and it makes me think back to the readings about Einstein and Leibniz. Did these guys have legit jobs? I think I read Leibniz was in school. But how are they making a living. Do they think about math while theywere working? I don't know, but to me, it seems like they made math their life. Well Leibniz was actually a genius in a lot. But... Euler for real made math a goal. He was smart with publishing it, and all his ideas, unlike Einsteins ideas. EInstein hid his brilliance and intelligence. Euler's job was his math books then in the end... To me atleast.
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