Linear algebra....

[Sporge27]

...and by extension curves and surfaces is all black magic! I mean I can wrap my mind around a lt of it it makes sense, but who the heck could have thought it up in the first place!

As I learn I feel my mind slowly warping... the stupid square graph paper could have been made of any type of parallelogram and still been able to represent any shape correctly....

but finding matrices to transform not just from standard to a basis, but from a basis in one dimension to it's higher dimensional self is aaasfdfsdhglhal I can't even picture what is happening anymore! Damn you higher dimensions!

 

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[«Jack»]

Sounds like fun.
And I'm not kidding.

 

[D1llon]

I've had similar harships with math, simply with the number 3.

If you were to divide a number by 3 you will not get a rational answer but 3.3333(repeating). But if you have a circle (1) and want to divide it into three equal parts there is a definite amount that should solve this, but there isn't.

The same goes with pi, how can the area of something go on forever when it is definite. Kinda kills the concepts.

 

[«Jack»]

I've had similar harships with math, simply with the number 3.

If you were to divide a number by 3 you will not get a rational answer but 3.3333(repeating). But if you have a circle (1) and want to divide it into three equal parts there is a definite amount that should solve this, but there isn't.

The same goes with pi, how can the area of something go on forever when it is definite. Kinda kills the concepts.

It has a definite value, it's just simply so incredibly precise that we can't measure it exactly. It's kind of like if you were trying to count every atom in your body. There's a definite amount, you'll just never get to the exact answer because it's so huge.

 

[Sporge27]

It has a definite value, it's just simply so incredibly precise that we can't measure it exactly. It's kind of like if you were trying to count every atom in your body. There's a definite amount, you'll just never get to the exact answer because it's so huge.

Precisely, how many time can you divide that pie in half? Really depends on when you want to stop. Though the amount in said slice approaches 0, but never quite reaches. Enjoy calculus now