Friday, January 30, 2009

Math and Friday

It's Friday at last. I must saw that this week really passed by in a
flash. I still can't believe the workdays of the week are over.
 
After the hectic schedule today I spent most of the time pondering mud
the question that had been on my mind for awhile now, the unreasonable
effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. Well technically I
was doing something else with bunch of other people, like browsing
through the morgan library museum, but my mind was fixated on the
issue and I had trouble responding to simple questions from the
company I was with (until a few moments ago, sharing beer and
hotdogs). To be perfectly honest I love falling into those moments of
intense concentration. It makes of feel like a human being, not just
an automata going through the motions... It makes of feel alive more
than any other idle chitchat and smiling faces.
 
Suddenly I think of Pascal and his theory on pleasure and boredom
being the drivers of the greatest achievements of humanity.
 
Whatever the case might be, I wonder he the question itself is worth
pursuing further.
 
It's almost midnight and I'm having a hard time thinking anything
coherent in middle of this crowd (that's beginning to get slightly
roudy. Why oh why do I keep on showing up at there things... Oh right,
to get drunk). I guess it's time to sink into oblivion for the night.

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