cavo8
Dec 31, 2012
Undergraduate / notation:U VA supplement : College of Arts and Sciences [3]
"My mother is a fish"; UVA SUP/ Literature that surprised me
College of Arts and Sciences: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?
As i immersed myself in As I Lay Dying my eyes halted at a phrase--- "My mother is a fish." This line uttered by a child could either mean that his mother had gills and traveled with Nemo, or she was simply nonexistent. As we flip through the pages of any novel our interpretations are never bounded.
On the other hand, math is a different story. Since elementary school one concept has been pounded into my head;there is only one answer to a math question. But this isn't always true. Like Literature, math has its own open term that shatters this notion: â
Initially during calculus I couldn't understand how an answer could be a symbol meaning basically anything; but these past months I have adopted it into my work and utilized in solving limits and equations.Though â is nothing like that child's words it took me by surprise and weaseled itself into my everyday life.
That infinity symbol won't allow me to swim through the ocean;instead, it will lead me to a campus where I can walk among intellectual people. It represents my growing knowledge in mathematics, which will only flourish at UVA.
"My mother is a fish"; UVA SUP/ Literature that surprised me
College of Arts and Sciences: What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?
As i immersed myself in As I Lay Dying my eyes halted at a phrase--- "My mother is a fish." This line uttered by a child could either mean that his mother had gills and traveled with Nemo, or she was simply nonexistent. As we flip through the pages of any novel our interpretations are never bounded.
On the other hand, math is a different story. Since elementary school one concept has been pounded into my head;there is only one answer to a math question. But this isn't always true. Like Literature, math has its own open term that shatters this notion: â
Initially during calculus I couldn't understand how an answer could be a symbol meaning basically anything; but these past months I have adopted it into my work and utilized in solving limits and equations.Though â is nothing like that child's words it took me by surprise and weaseled itself into my everyday life.
That infinity symbol won't allow me to swim through the ocean;instead, it will lead me to a campus where I can walk among intellectual people. It represents my growing knowledge in mathematics, which will only flourish at UVA.
