Math Theory

Who in the fuck decided that numbers should be imaginary? And the letters... You've gotta be kidding me with these letters. Proofs, that sin and cos bullshit, just all of math is frustrating. Though I found a few years ago that I do like math. But, not in the sense that we learn it. I was doing some research and I stumbled upon some of the math research of some ancient Indian philosophers. One of my favorites, Bramagupta, was the guy why came up with the concept of zero. I liked reading his notes, not just because some of their examples were very facetious to me, but because it really implied that he was wrong.

This is important to me because Terrance Howard, an actor most famous for being Lucius Lyon on the show Empire, actually has a very fascinating theory that 1 + 1 = 1. Now obviously, people say, "No, Terrance. Just no." but I like his theory because we always just assume that math is right or wrong. You either right two and get a sticker on that question, or something else and get nothing. But, math is all just theoretical. It was a bunch of guys on a boat looking at stars coming up with thoughts. (I imagine them on a boat because it completes the happy scene in my mind; they probably lived on land.)

I also like Terrance Howard's theory because he makes a good point that by saying that adding one and one is two, we give no value to one. One is the loneliest number because one means nothing basically. It tends to be seen as the cell is in biology; it makes up everything. But, cells also have parts, even the most basic prokaryotic cells have components. For the number 1 and the number 0, they're essentially cells and viruses, respectively, and we see them as small non-factors that only add a little bit, but they in fact add a lot.

Now granted, if some teacher just spewed math theory at me, I would quit. I barely got through the letters and crawled through imaginary numbers, and if someone came and basically shot the fundamentals in the face, I would be done. But, I think we should think more about math and what it means. Why it is just seen as universally right, why we accept some answers and not others, and what if everything we've been taught has been incorrect this whole time really needs to be pondered. I mean hell, someone literally stole the number zero. So, math theory is really interesting, but I will NEVER take another math course to raise this point.