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Hey /sci/.

I've been thinking about the importance of mathematics, and struggling to make sense my thoughts. So to make things easy for myself - I'm sure every mathematician that frequents /sci/ has thought about how to explain the importance and appeal to mathematics to their friends and relatives before. If you could share your concise explanations here, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou.

>> No.4790006
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Get this. Math is omnipresent, as if it were God.
A geometric shape unlike any other is produced by mathematics, meaning it is already there, it just needs to be described. The Mandelbrot set is like a portrait of reality.

>> No.4790042

>>4790006

dude...dude: 3D mandelbrot.

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>>4790042
Dude. 4D Julia set.

>> No.4790058

>>4790045

Dude that's my favourite Picasso.

>> No.4790089
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Importance is easy, without math we would have nothing.
Appeal is like Russel said: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show."

As for the reason I actually decided to become a mathematician, look at the pic.

>> No.4790094

>>4790089
how do you explain shit art then?

is shit art awesome art in fact?

>> No.4790101

>>4790094
Nah, shit art would be like writing a 100 page non-trivial proof for the Pythagorean theorem.

>> No.4790102

make them do proper maths, proof and shit, not the fucking boring arithmetic.

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>>4790094
>in fact
>implying objectivity
What makes art awesome or shit lies in the eye of the beholder, bud.

>> No.4790118

I love those moments where everything is weirdly abstracted, like when in linear algebra you start using functions as vectors and 'orthogonally projecting' functions onto subspaces and shit like that. Also I have no problem thinking and doing problems with no obvious application to the real world