I haven't missed a blog yet, but today was a time that I could go to the math forum. So in case I miss one in the future, this is my make up blog.
One of Dr. Chamberland's points that I really liked was that many mathematicians are driven by the aesthetics of math. I feel like I can somewhat identify with this because I have looked at a page of homework that I spent hours on and thought, "man this looks good". Another point he had was that math is not useful if we don't make connections and apply it. Any area of pure math would be completely useless if there was never a connection made between it and some other area. A couple of my favorite quotes from his lecture are, "proofs legitimize intuition", "when the brain is overstimulated, learning is prevented", and "people learn better after a walk in nature than I walk through urban society". Each of these is fairly self-explanatory, but is so applicable to the way each of us studies mathematics.
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