Biology is neat like that, it has to make sense. I think the largest difference between math and the rest of non-humanities we learned in high school was that math doesn’t (have to) make intuitive sense; you solve an equation, it’s like you chop off a Hydra’s head; they can just write another one almost like the first one, but with some other power of x or something, and this new equation has to be solved from the very start. There is no ‘maybe I am a bit wrong here, but if I narrow down or widen this definition in such-and-such way, my answer will be right’, just right or wrong.
I did like pieces of it, like mass point geometry which almost seems ‘humane’ in its ‘here is how we reduce this thing to another thing’ approach. Perhaps other people like me would be fond of it, too.
Biology is neat like that, it has to make sense. I think the largest difference between math and the rest of non-humanities we learned in high school was that math doesn’t (have to) make intuitive sense; you solve an equation, it’s like you chop off a Hydra’s head; they can just write another one almost like the first one, but with some other power of x or something, and this new equation has to be solved from the very start. There is no ‘maybe I am a bit wrong here, but if I narrow down or widen this definition in such-and-such way, my answer will be right’, just right or wrong.
I did like pieces of it, like mass point geometry which almost seems ‘humane’ in its ‘here is how we reduce this thing to another thing’ approach. Perhaps other people like me would be fond of it, too.