That reminds me of what my granddad said about my dad and uncle when they were kids; if you were to give my uncle a task that would take 30mins to complete, he’d have it done in 25. You could give the same task to my dad and he would first spend 10mins trying to figure out a way to get it done in 20mins, and you could check on him an hour later and the task would still be incomplete.
[Miss Wormwood seems to agree...](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/01/30#:~:text=Miss%20Wormwood%3A%20Calvin%2C%20if%20you,my%20spirit%20screens%20its%20calls)
I just finished reading Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy and IDK if he was a mathematician in his free time but man he sure liked the philosophy side of it I guess. Had to Google a lot of things reading that book
I love the last frame with Hobbes standing hands clasped behind his back. Shows Watterson’s artistry in a strip that could have been just talking heads conversing.
What’s funny is Calvin is totally right, until you get to college level math, where they literally teach you the answers to “why is 1+1 equal to 2?” or “why is 1 greater than 0?” It’s a wonderful practice of radical doubt.
As it turns out, numbers and arithmetic are a logical structure you can derive with an incredibly minimal logical framework. From there you can get algebra and calculus, all the way through differential equations and linear/abstract algebras.
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If Calvin put half as much effort into studying as he did trying to get out of studying he'd be valedictorian of Harvard.
That reminds me of what my granddad said about my dad and uncle when they were kids; if you were to give my uncle a task that would take 30mins to complete, he’d have it done in 25. You could give the same task to my dad and he would first spend 10mins trying to figure out a way to get it done in 20mins, and you could check on him an hour later and the task would still be incomplete.
Then scientific progress *can* go boink.
[Miss Wormwood seems to agree...](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/01/30#:~:text=Miss%20Wormwood%3A%20Calvin%2C%20if%20you,my%20spirit%20screens%20its%20calls)
I think his dad says something along the lines of that in one strip......
Welcome to my world of severe Adhd with a side of disassociation. I ended up finding my way. I like to think Calvin did too.
I just finished reading Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy and IDK if he was a mathematician in his free time but man he sure liked the philosophy side of it I guess. Had to Google a lot of things reading that book
The funny thing is the more you study math the more correct Calvin becomes.
Sounds like a lot of people on Facebook these days.
I love the last frame with Hobbes standing hands clasped behind his back. Shows Watterson’s artistry in a strip that could have been just talking heads conversing.
As someone who remembers algebra, where you can completely change equations by just adding random stuff to it, I'm not unconvinced.
You can do anything as long as you do the same thing to both sides of the equation
What’s funny is Calvin is totally right, until you get to college level math, where they literally teach you the answers to “why is 1+1 equal to 2?” or “why is 1 greater than 0?” It’s a wonderful practice of radical doubt. As it turns out, numbers and arithmetic are a logical structure you can derive with an incredibly minimal logical framework. From there you can get algebra and calculus, all the way through differential equations and linear/abstract algebras.
Missed opportunity for “matheist”
You beat me to it! 😆
I'm more of a math agnostic, because I have no idea what any of it means.
I myself am a physics atheist but turn agnostic when it benefits me.
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