Music and Mobius Strips... connected...?????

[AJMD429]

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I love the way the 3blue1brown guy presents stuff.

https://youtube.com/shorts/K-pGGb0f3tc

I can't say I always understand it, but a lot of times I can kind of understand it while he's explaining it, and have that wonderful brief moment of clarity. Of course five minutes after I watched the video I couldn't explain it to anyone else.

He does have a lot of interesting ones on things like how large language models work and neural network computing and so forth.
Also just stuff about basic mathematical and physics concepts many of us learned about years ago but have long since forgotten.

[piller]

I totally stalled out after Calculus, so that sort of math and music meld is beyond me.

[AJMD429]

I totally stalled out after Calculus, so that sort of math and music meld is beyond me.

At least you are in the generation of pharmacists who had to take calculus. From the way a lot of the young ones act these days I'm not even sure they had to take basic math...

I liked the first couple semesters of calculus but I think it was the 3rd semester that did me in. I remember they were talking about lines that intersected in two points. I immediately thought well I'm onto this because I'm smart. I thought "You're just talking about one line that's on top of another so of course it intersects in two points; It intersects in an infinite number of points...!" Then the instructor said specifically that "These lines only intersect in two points and no more than two points..." Something about one of them being in 'curved space'...

No more calculus after that for me...!

[geobru]

It blows my mind that any human being can understand let alone think up advanced math and physics. I did fine with math but hit the wall with calculus. As soon as I finished the required calc, I did a brain dump and quickly forgot as much of it as possible, and never once used it in my career as a forester and business manager.

Physic was interesting at times. I remember when the prof was talking about black holes. (This was in 1973, and I am sure the scientists have a better understanding now than they did then.) He described a black hole as something that had infinite gravity, infinite mass and was collapsing in on itself infinitely and was infinitely small and has the power to suck in whatever get within range of its gravitational pull, ie. stars, planets, gasses or anything else that is out there.

He followed up that description with "Whatever that means."

I appreciated that moment of clarity when he put in words what everyone in that class was thinking as we tried to comprehend how anything fitting that description could exist.

[Blaine]

I was never too good at math and wouldn't you know it? My first job when I retired from the Army was in land surveying. The math was crazy hard, but a good programable handheld would save me.
Next gig was making micro chips and converting angstroms into microns with the spun on glass machine.
Same thing with the next gig in a water company.