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[View source for Usenet headers] Date: 26 Apr 1998 20:42:24 -0700 In article <thomas.893626339@bubba>, Rollin Thomas <thomas@mail.nhn.ou.edu> wrote: >"boys are better than math." Wah. On the contrary. - Modulo exponentiation won't talk about you behind your back - Boolean algebra will never be untrue - You can have as many simultaneous equations as you can handle - Taylor series can last as long as you want them to - Differential equations go as fast or as slow as you want - Inductive cases don't care how many other cases you've proven before - A convergent sequence won't run away to infinity with a cute undergrad - Arithmetic problems won't care if you want to use a calculator - Buying calculators is seldom an embarassing experience - You can prove a theorem as many times as you want in the same night - You can prove a theorem any way you want and nobody will call you a pervert - Theorems won't expect you to form corrolaries to them - You can form corrolaries to another girl's theorem - A theorem won't tell you what to name your corrolaries - If you form a corrolary you didn't expect, your theorem won't demand that you erase it - A theorem won't mind supporting the corrolaries you formed to another theorem - A theorem won't want to bring you home to meet its lemma - A theorem won't say "why doesn't this corrolary look like me?" - A theorem won't say "let's keep trying until we get a general result" (although your thesis advisor might) - Your text doesn't mind hiding on the shelf when your mother comes over - And if she finds it, she won't care anyway - If you put your text on a chair, you can sit on its face all day - Sometimes texts are hard to read, but you can always look in the solution guide - Sometimes math is hairy, but it doesn't mind if you try to simplify it - You can get math videos for free at the library - Math will never, ever, make you look stupid - It's *good* to have a reputation for doing a lot of math - You can, at least in theory, do any math you want - No matter how old you are, you can always find a new problem to do - Math is always hard (Barbie) - Math understands when you can't make up your mind (Goedel) - Nobody calls you a bigot for having a favourite kind of math - Nobody calls you shallow if you like to talk about math all the time - If you study really hard for years and years and years, there is some possibility that some day you may actually be able to understand math! -- "Let me lose so beautifully http://www.islandnet.com/~mskala/ Let me lick the dew from the money tree Matthew Skala Have the moms of the world all care about me Ansuz BBS At suppertime" - Odds (250) 642-7820
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