Why
do I math? Why would I do a thing so dry and boring? For me, it is neither of
those.
I first truly
encountered mathematics when I was seven years old. It was wintertime. I had
received from my parents my first video game (if you're curious). I quickly learned that there were
many features of the game based on chance. Intrigued, I checked a book about
probability out of the library.
What
wonder! What beauty! How purely laid out before me were the principles embodied
in my beloved game! The world was ordered. It might be crazy, it might
be chaos, but that too, possesses its own order, its own eternal beauty.
That which my elementary-school
teachers taught, I quickly grasped firmly and built upon. Instead, I filled my
notebooks with my own thoughts, with my own knowledge, beginning with creating
vast tables expressing every possible tactical situation within that game.
From that beginning, I
have continued growing in my pursuit of knowledge. The beauty of the world is
multiplied endlessly by the prism of mathematics into the wondrous rainbow that
is our understanding of the Universe.
To this day, my
favorite hobby is analyzing other hobbies.
