So it's an actual real concept, and not like this.
www.b3ta.com/talk/1512454
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 21:50, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

This is why I stick with literature.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 21:56, Reply)

I know the feeling

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 22:31, Reply)

Science and mathematics have a beautifully inhuman rationality to them.
No matter what language you speak, no matter who you are, no matter where you are in the universe, 1 + 1 will always equal 2, 2 x 2 will always equal 4, and any action will always produce an equal and opposite reaction.

In any case, I find it a lot easier than trying to work out what Shakespeare might have been thinking while he was having a cack on the afternoon of March 9, 1602.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Oh I agree
I think maths is incredibly beautiful. I only did it to a low level but still felt the satisfaction of producing an answer to a question- having all the parts and putting them together in the right way.

But I wasn't very good at it. I was alright, but I was much better at making sense of a jumble of letters than a jumble of words. And there's something very logical in working out what word does what and ending up with poetry at the end.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 22:53, Reply)

I'd say calculus is to mathematics what poetry is to language.
It's all about the way things change, and depending on how you apply it, it can be used to explain everything from the most trivial results to the fundamental way the universe works.

Sadly, it's not even dipped into till A-level, which is when most people frustrated with mathematics will give it up.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 23:05, Reply)

I liked maths
I did my maths GCSE in a year, so the second year was based on pre-A-level course which dipped a bit into more complex maths. I really enjoyed it, but had to accept that I wasn't a natural, and I was never going to properly comprehend it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 23:10, Reply)

I attempted Maths at AS
but was unwilling to work. I instead chose an easier subject- easier to me, and not easy really in the slightest. I don't know if I'd have been better off sticking with Maths and working hard, but that's the way things were.

Aspects of poetry are quite mathematical, such as scansion- there are certain rules, words that can't be used in places, and definite patterns. Very relaxing to do, as well, provided it's not in an exam situation :/
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 23:46, Reply)

Maybe I'm strange but
I don't really like poetry. I like poets, and I like some poetry, but it's not something I'd choose to read. And if I ever meet Carol Ann Duffy I shall have to be restrained
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 23:50, Reply)

I've met her.
I don't read modern poetry- my favourite English poet is probably Hilaire Belloc. But that's because I don't really read for pleasure any more. I'v got my favourite book down with me at the moment but I can't bring myself to read. Instead I'm pressing F5 on a dead messageboard :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 23:59, Reply)

well talk to me
it's been a shit evening, thanks to a combination of factors.

You met Carol Ann Duffy and managed not to smack her?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 0:08, Reply)