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Faith in Mathematics
Why I Like Math By Matt Stone. Nice story of a man's search for meaning and finding it through mathematics ("I became aware of an underlying superstructure that tied all my math knowledge together. "). Why is it that people think religion is only comforting? Comfort is one aspect of religion, yes, but it is not everything. In many cases, I would even go so far as to say that religion is no more comforting than any other system of beliefs (be it scientific, atheistic, agnostic, or, in this case, mathematics). My naive optimism has more to do with my happiness than my religion (then again, I suppose religion has infulenced my optimism). In the end, I don't think religion is as important as most people think. It plays a small part in many aspects of life, but it does not (at least, it should not) dominate everthing. [via metascene]

This post is part of the Kaedrin Weblog. It's been categorized under Science & Technology and was originally published in January 2001.

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