Thursday, January 1, 2009

ON MATHEMATICS

There is a very little chance of people loving this subject. But, if we really understand it, then there is no alternative but to fall for it. Mathematics is one such subject. During school days, it took a braveheart to really like this most misunderstood subject. As we surpass ourself in age, we tend to mostly ignore it. Better still, we are all the more keen to put maths into the dustbin. It becomes all the more clear when we realise how this subject had become the embodiment of our previous embarrassement. Remember, the time one tried to pickup the nuances of a subject that put fear in the heart of even the most courageous of souls. Quite differently, maths is a subject that dwells into the finest of aspects of human existence. See, what if there is another Galaxy somewhere! Just like ours. And there, they have different set of rules. Different laws of physics altogether. Now in our planet, two goats + Two goats make four goats. So too in theirs. Two Aliens + Two Aliens will make four Aliens and not five, six..however different should their laws be. Maths never changes. The beauty of this subject is so vast that it is eternally linked to all fields of science. No scientific proof is complete without it being derived/compiled in maths. The only crime this subject does is that it gives us answers devoid of emotion or irrationality. It chooses to be blunt and seeks no forgiveness. We happily co-exist with it; totally unaware that all we think as the truth might just be there-lurking to be opened as a fact. Maths cannot lie. Only we can.Hence we deny.

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