Of Cabbages and Mathematicians

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Mathematics is such an exquisitely explicit language that volumes upon volumes are written in order to portray even a tiny bit of its intricacies. Most of these intricacies are so plainly obvious that a cabbage on a rainy day could guess them, but the art of guessing has long been considered non-scientific in this part of the world especially by certain individuals who have taken it upon themselves to educate the youth. The guessing part has been replaced by a thoroughly organized process of reading (read memorizing). The learning process has been mechanized to follow a certain syllabus carefully crafted by years of experience. All this mostly results in the massacre of a great deal of brain cells which otherwise would be used in the guessing phase of solving maths problems. Its such a futile attempt even to discuss such a matter knowing very well that for the last 14 years I have been on the same assembly line which produces a million other scholars of science. Anyway I continue my guessing game and take turns in being on either side of the thin red flunking line.

Do any of you care what a Bertrami Identity is useful for, or for that matter what a Euler-Lagrange equation does to make life easier? Exactly my point!

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Its been a depressing few days as you can make out from the tone. A serious question haunting me mercilessly. I burn from inside trying to face it and shiver in fear thinking about the consequences if it goes wrong. I am not the fearless hero I make myself look like after all. About the issue at hand I cannot tell you, its too private (hehe!).

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The Absolutist’s Guide to the Universe

Cabbage : Hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings whose manifestations in our universe mostly resemble round, green leafy objects mistaken for a wild species of a local variety of vegetables. The other manifestations of their kind on Earth are known in clandestine circles as mathematicians. For this reason Earthlings who are apparently brain-dead are referred to as cabbages. The hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings of Phulekoupia have taken this as an insult and are working feverishly to develop inter-dimensional travel technologies so that they can wage war with the actual cause of all this trouble – the mathematicians.