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What kind of math would you call:
good math?
bad math?
beautiful math?
ugly math?
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good math: pure math
bad math: financial math
beautiful math: topology and groups
ugly math: statistics
I'm guessing a lot of people are going to disagree with me... |
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Originally Posted by pomp  good math: pure math
bad math: financial math
beautiful math: topology and groups
ugly math: statistics
I'm guessing a lot of people are going to disagree with me... | I am with you especial the ugly math I hate statistics very very much .
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Originally Posted by NonCommAlg What kind of math would you call:
good math?
bad math?
beautiful math?
ugly math? | good math: Pure Math bad math: Financial Math beautiful math: Algebra  ugly math: Probabilities...  Statistics? meh...
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Originally Posted by pomp good maths: pure math
bad maths: financial math
beautiful maths: topology and groups
ugly maths: statistics
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I would tend to agree with your opinion of ugly maths, but I would change the other three (I have not done any financial maths, so I can't comment on it...): good maths: Algebra bad maths: Applied maths beautiful maths: Analysis ugly maths: Statistics
Personally, I love, adore, and am fascinated by Analysis. I just can't do it... |
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I don't know if it's what you had in mind, but "ugly math" doesn't mean "hated math".
Though one may hate a subject because it's ugly.
What is "good", and what is "bad", if it's not about beauty ?
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Originally Posted by Swlabr I would tend to agree with your opinion of ugly maths, but I would change the other three (I have not done any financial maths, so I can't comment on it...):
good maths: Algebra
bad maths: Applied maths
beautiful maths: Analysis
ugly maths: Statistics
Personally, I love, adore, and am fascinated by Analysis. I just can't do it... | This subject will have many points of view. Here's mine. I diagree on your " bad math - Applied Math." Without it, most of our advances in Engineering and Science wouldn't have happened! |
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I diagree on your "bad math - Applied Math." Without it, most of our advances in Engineering and Science wouldn't have happened! | i do agree with you! 
was it Hardy who said applied math is a bad math?  i think applied math is a strange creature: the older she gets, the better looking she becomes! haha
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Originally Posted by Danny This subject will have many points of view. Here's mine. I diagree on your "bad math - Applied Math." Without it, most of our advances in Engineering and Science wouldn't have happened! |
I took "good" and "bad" to be merely what I enjoy or do not enjoy. I enjoy algebra, but applied maths in general just doesn't do anything for me. If good and bad referred to the subjects impact on the real world, then I would naturally be forced to change their order... |
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Originally Posted by NonCommAlg What kind of math would you call:
good math?
bad math?
beautiful math?
ugly math? |
Let's see... I'm not sure I fully get the question, but...
Good math: All math! No point otherwise 
Bad math: Analysing signals, coding and decoding, spherometry in the large. Anything that applies to the Weapons Industry, and -euphemistically- to "Security" issues.
Beautiful math: Differential and (sigh) Algebraic Topology.
Ugly math: The statistics of finance. Yuck!
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Originally Posted by Rebesques Let's see... I'm not sure I fully get the question, but...
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Bad math: Analysing signals, coding and decoding, spherometry in the large. Anything that applies to the Weapons Industry, and -euphemistically- to "Security" issues.
..snip.. | You do realise you have just categorised a vary large slice of mathematics as bad here, including most of what you might think of as god maths.
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