Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Mathematics and Time


To those who understand

Being lost in mathematics just means that you are not ready for that piece of mathematics. You have to build a bridge from the mathematics you do understand to the new mathematics. The main trouble with being lost is that all subsequent mathematics you encounter is likely also to be lost on you. Before going on you must understand what's happening now. Practically speaking this means that when talking about your training practice good math skills.


It's sometimes hard to understand mathematics (and even harder to invent new mathematics) like most martial artist love to do. This applies to everybody regardless of experience. But as you gain experience the difficulties diminish and you can take bigger steps and tell the truth about time and training. So you get more efficient with math, and a task that looks so formidable at first shrinks to being manageable. So being lost in mathematics is not the natural state of things and prolonged exposure to that state can be avoided!