Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Ode to Mathematics

A midnight thought!
In a universe of discourse, where every preposition's logic is evaluated as a predicate, there exists a null-set. Void, null, or empty? What difference does it make; and then they say, "every set is a super-set of a null-set!". Its like opressing an already-meek; somebody who is gang raped by tuples every day, and never successfully impregnated; a set whose existances is being held togather by two puny little parenthesis. Imagine if the parenthesis were replaced by a round bracket on one side, and a square bracket on the other. It would mean nothing for the null set, but if it were an ordered pair it would mean including and excluding, depending where the curly and square brackets fell. I feel sorry for null. Have you ever noticed how they represent a null set? It could have been just a zero, but that wasnt enough to extinguish the fires of vanity in their bellies. They used a zero and then drew a line diagonally right through it; GOOD LORD MERCY. Who says there are good people on this planet?
Euclid proposed the theory of mathematics. He defined a few axioms on which this entire subject rests. But he never defined how the heck would one measure the accuracy of these axioms!!! All the theories of maths, the formulas, and the equations are derived from the axioms, but there is no proof of the fundamental axioms. I guess Burtend Russel was right when he said whatever he said about Maths (I think it was, "in Maths they try to prove nothing with nothing").
Computer algorithms of today suck!! In my Numerical Methods class today, I was really disapointed after I witnessed an algorithm for diffrentiation. Differentiation is the change in one variable with respect to another variable. A computer cannot even find a limit! Consequently there is a fake method of differentiation: you specify small intervals (like 0.5) in a recursive algorithm with an upper bound. Doesnt that suck!! Dont u feel sick? And do not even talk about Integration! THE best tool we have is Mc Lauren series centered at zero (or the Tylor series). Issac Newton used to integrate like that 400 years ago!
I think our number system sucks! Decimal system sucks! We do not know what the hell does a 0 mean; not to mention 0/0 or infinity over zero, or 0 over infinity.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Damn! you are a genius.