Mathematics

Mathematics: the language of God transliterated into hieroglyphs by dyslexic chimpanzees. One knows it means something terribly important, but even when one has the key to understanding one is led astray by errors in transcription.

Continuity is a key conception in the history of ideas
in many fields. A form of continuity, under one name
or another, is frequently attributed to processes or
developments in mathematics, science, philosophy,
history, and theology.

One teaches scientists about music easiest with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, because of its mathematical perfection.

»something's going on. it has to do with that number. there's an answer in that number.«

»11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. mathematics is the language of nature. 2. everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. if you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. therefore: there are patterns everywhere in nature.«

»personal note: when i was little my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when i was six i did.«

-- PI

Maths is no only numbers, one beside the next or one added to another. If it were that you should call it calculating. But that's not, what is the center of maths.
Maths gives us certain instruments to describe the world or even to fortell what will happen. In every inch of our life we will find maths. Most people don't want to look for it, as they always feared maths at school. But there's no reason.

There are two individuals here that to me seem to be the essence of the assoziations-blaster.
Their contributions always delight me and get me into another way of thinking. I think I've never seen some stupid comments by them here. But sometimes even the stupid comments by some others make me laugh.