Are you at all interested in hobbyist mathematics? Do you ever tinker around with math in an attempt to solve existing mathematical problems yet to be solved aside from programming?
Awesoken at
I'm only interested in solving things that would be useful to programming. For example: finding a way to render something with fewer operations (using MMX, SSE, multithread, etc..) is something I might be interested in. Calculating PI to thousands of decimal places or proving some useless theorem are not usually things that interest me. (I have written a PI calculator recently, but it was merely to test the speed of x86 vs. x86-64 : )
counting_pine at
I used to be really enthusiastic about maths, but then I took a degree in it.
The first year was great, I learned a lot and can still remember a lot of it. After that, things got progressively harder and I got progressively less interested.
I think maths is better when it relates to programming because applying it to something practical is a big motivator, and makes it easier to think around the subject a bit.
I used to care about things like Fermat's Last Theorem, but now I think the underlying maths just gets way too obscure for me.
ConsistentCallsign at
Re: Ken: hobbyist or recreational mathematics.
Awesoken said at
Calculating PI to thousands of decimal places or proving some useless theorem are not usually things that interest me. (I have written a PI calculator recently, but it was merely to test the speed of x86 vs. x86-64 : )
I made a Pi formula a couple of years ago:
lim x→±∞ x*sine(180/x) = Π
where x is the number of corners in the circle. Now since we know that a circle is a polygon with an infinite number of "gons"/corners, x must be infinite too! :D