The Beauty of a Subject

20th April '09. Just another start at school... The same old hassels, the same old tensions, the same old messups. Though being interesting, I never had that "lust" for Math as I did for Physics. It all had to happen this day, as I fell in love with it. I realised every random "scrible" had its own game of numbers. I realised that beneath every chaos, there's an order; a unique order of numbers. Mathematics is all we need to define anything our eyes can fetch...

Something that even adds to the beauty of this subject is the number: 0. It simply is "nothing", but at the same time, is the sum of every number that could exist, every shape we could define, alias "everything"... It's just another instance of human imagination submitting to Mathematics; it's legitimate to equate everything to nothing! It's a number which reminds us that every positive has it's negative, and every negative harbors a positive. It's a number to break all infinities down to nothing, and lift nothing up to infinity.

0 is not the only beauty Mathematics harbors. The infinite bedlams of infinite infinities is yet another thing to lift me off my feet... For a simple instance, there lies infinite number of infinities between any 2 entities in this infinite continuum of the number line; there are infinite number of infinities between any 2 given number, say 0 and 1. There lies infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1, and each of these numbers have their very own infinities to lay. With anything we do, we're transcending an infinite number of infinities, while our imagination is drenched in an infinity!

Mathematics certainly is not limited by our cosmos, and it can span a continuum larger than we can even think of. Somewhere, it tells us that the cosmos isn't everything that exists, and it's just an infinitely tiny entity of the infinity, or as I would call, the super-infinity, Mathematics defines. What makes this game of infinity even more treacherous is that a super-infinity just couldn't exist! Does this make our existance a paradox? I'll let you think hard...

On one end, mathematics defines everything that can exist, and on the other hand, it contradicts everything that exists! Such is the beauty of Mathematics, the beauty I fell in love with...