MATHEMATICS IS COOL

Why would i title this blog post in a way to brand myself the biggest science geek on the planet? Because it's true--not that im the biggest geek (hopefully), but that mathematics is pretty interesting. The more i get into it (ive been writing about chaos theory, applied to describe patterns in crosstown traffic) and talk to mathematicians about their theories, the more it woos me. It's this language that expresses huge, tiny, or abstract concepts that the human mind cannot get a hold of. It gives a collection of numbers a shape and gives ground to seemingly ethereal human phenomenon. I imagine grasping math as akin to first learning a language--if i remembered the frustration of thinking before talking, then i might be able to compare it to before i learned how we model the world using math.