It’s a brand new year. Congratulations, you’ve made it this far. Good for you. I hope you enjoyed the holiday season and I wish you an extraordinary new year. I can’t… well… think if any other way to spark this, so let’s just get on with it.

God is a mathematician. Ignore for one moment the theosophical implications of a statement like that. I am personally not a believer, but that’s not the point. My point is that Mathematics is the language of the universe. When all physical knowledge is whittled down to its simplest form, it is understood mathematically. Maths allows us to expand beyond our senses and perceive the universe in ways that may be considered non-intuitive.

Mathematics, while considered a science, predates science and is the basic language that all the physical sciences either speak, or can learn from. There are those, me included, who think mathematics should be taught as a liberal art. Math is more than a science, more than a process; it’s a way of thinking. Whether she knows it or not, the mathematician is a philosopher. The Pythagoreans from whom we get the Pythagorean Theorem were more a philosophical cult than a technical movement. Continue reading “Selfish Mathematics”