Bush
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I've tried several times to write a thought-out response to this, and my inclination is to say 'geometry,' but I can't help but see math in a way that the disciplines are all combined anyway and so they're hard to tease out. At some point, it's all just 'math.'
But algebra seems a lot more like busywork to me, a thing you have to do in order to get an answer. It's peeling the stupid potatoes so you can eventually make Potato Gratin.
I have a sphere, which is probably a geometric shape. How do you get the volume of this sphere? That's easy; there's a formula for it. But where does that formula come from? Well, [basic principles mucked around with by calculus, which inevitably boils down to algebra anyway].
Which was more fun as a kid: playing with toys in the real world and imagining what you can do with them and how they would interact, or writing a bunch of sentences until you reach some final statement that says that one thing is equal to some other thing?
But algebra seems a lot more like busywork to me, a thing you have to do in order to get an answer. It's peeling the stupid potatoes so you can eventually make Potato Gratin.
I have a sphere, which is probably a geometric shape. How do you get the volume of this sphere? That's easy; there's a formula for it. But where does that formula come from? Well, [basic principles mucked around with by calculus, which inevitably boils down to algebra anyway].
Which was more fun as a kid: playing with toys in the real world and imagining what you can do with them and how they would interact, or writing a bunch of sentences until you reach some final statement that says that one thing is equal to some other thing?