What made you so interested in maths in the first place, it looks crap to me and computers do all the work now

Question

and by the way, I was saying that these days mathematics isn't as important as when star charts needed to be calculated thousands of years ago.

Answer 1

imbecile. if it wasn't for people being 'interested in maths' then you wouldn't have a bloody computer to do all the work for you.

so sorry... wasn't I supposed to take that question so seriously?

Answer 2

Computers are only as good as the people who design and program them and what do you need to do that? Why a logical, mathematical brain.
Without Maths you have no Science, no Geography, no Technology etc etc.
Now if you are talking only about Arithmetic, which is a very, very small part of Mathematics, it is true that calculators are really useful and save you a lot of time. However there are many things that you should be able to do in your head like times tables, easy percentages, estimates etc and this should be much quicker than using a calculator. It's like using a washing machine-much quicker and more efficient for a full load but not so for one pair of socks!

Answer 3

It may seem a lot of rubbish to you today, but try going shopping when there is a power cut... all the tellers get stuck - except the older ones who were taught mathematics and can add up a column of numbers.

Take a piece of wood 81cm long and cut it into 3 pieces they will be ... oh hang on, I need to leave the workshop for batteries for my calculator to work out that 81/3 = 27.

Computers may be "easier", but if you put "garbage in you get garbage out" (a prime law of programming) unless you know that 3x3+3 = 12 you won't know that 3+3x3= 12 not 18.

I'm only interested in Maths to save me spending hours working out if the computer is giving me the right answer.

[P.S. Mathematics gets abbreviated to Maths, it's plural!]

Answer 4

The fact that I could get an answer to a problem, and have it make sense. The first real-life math problem I ever posed for myself was: what is the moon's velocity in its orbit? Since I had not learned long division at the time, I had my mother do the division. (I was off by a factor of 2 because I used the radius of the moon's orbit instead of the diameter.) And that's still the reason. It is great for doing a sanity check on a proposition: if the numbers don't work, the proposition is trash. And you still need to program the computers, and verify that the answers are correct.

Answer 5

Maths is an important subject. For example without mathematicians you wouldn't be able to make secure payments online, Public Key Encryption of the sort used in credit card transactions online are based on work done largely without computers in the field of number theory. Computers are actually very limited when it comes to maths, they can only add and subtract, they just do so very very very quickly

Answer 6

try to play poker without knowing hand probabilities and odds

even day to day stuff such as going to a shop filling your basket and realising at the counter you might not have enough could be embarrassing

there have been studies in america (I'm sorry i can't recall the the name of the studies) with students ; they were ask questions on the subjects they were studying and with no problems at all they got the answers by surfing the net showing remarkable research skills. but what was worrying questioner(s) only a few could answer any of the questions by themselves. this is causing some concerns i.e. when these students sit for their exams there won't be any computers for most of their subjects.

Answer 7

If u ever take computer science or any engineering major u will see math rules.

Also the computer is Math

Computer - Computes. U compute something Mathematically.

Everything about Computers is math.

Without Math u dont have computers beleive me I know I'm a computer science major.


EDIT::::

I think Math takes time to mature with a person to see y its important.

Because when your young u dont see its usefullness. But give it time and u will. Math also takes time to understand, when your math skills "mature"

Answer 8

Nah, I'm crap at maths. My 8 year old is learning her times tables at the moment, I thought I'd help her by learning mine, still can't get em to stick in there, she's got them sorted though. Thank God for computers, tills and calculators, I say.

Answer 9

And your definition of Maths is?
I don't think you have a clue about the subject matter so how can we answer your question.
Perhaps you mean Arithmetic?
As for that Binary Hexadecimal machine you refer to, well that's just as dumb as you seem to be. Or at least until it is motivated to answer yes or no.
Now I have proved myself wrong haven't I?.
I guess you can do a just little more than a computer?

Answer 10

Everyone has their own interest. I think the question is what makes you dislike maths so much? You are saying that it is crap, how? Do computers really do all the work?

Answer 11

Computers don't do all the work, it's often much quicker to solve a complex equation on paper than it is to try to type it into some sort of solving program.