“We are ashamed to admit it, but ordinary people and those who measure‘ by eye ’are absolutely right in their suspicions: mathematics does not work; in fact it is not even a science ”, explains the doctor of mathematics Joseph Silly.
Why do so many children, adolescents and adults turn their noses against mathematics? Because they do the math and it doesn't give them the result that the book says. And why does that happen? Because the book is an invention of the one who wrote it. It's highly unlikely that it will give you the same result as the guy who wrote the book. And let's take charge, teachers rarely get the result that the book says either. And what's more: when we try to reconstruct the process so that it gives us the same result of the book, we actually acquire an influence from the steps that the person who wrote the book did: that is, pure psychology, no mathematics ”
“People think they know math, but in reality it is a made-up set of rules that have a huge psychological influence. For example, if you are taught since you were a child that two plus two is four, then it is very difficult to make you understand something different ”, says the doctor. “What's more, nobody knows how to count. Let's see, what number comes after 999999999999999999999999999? "
“Nobody knows very well how much he earns in salary; no one knows exactly how much money you have in your pocket or how much money you are going to spend. No one can calculate how many matches are in a box: if you count them once it will give you a number; count them again and give you another. Juan counts them and gives him a number; Pedro tells it and gives him another. Let's not talk then about more complex operations ”.
"There are infinite examples in which the result changes according to the moment and the person who calculates it," he clarifies.
“We go further. If mathematicians and physicists use letters for their formulas, it is purely and simply because they prefer a letter to a number, because the letter is indeterminate, while the number is in place of something determined, but unreal. In a way the physicists ‘hacked’ mathematics so that it is not mathematics "
“A carpenter becomes an excellent carpenter only if he forgets or if he even he never knew geometric rules. A cable cut to size is always shorter or longer. Same with woods. Same with shoe and clothing sizes. Something inverse happens with artists: the more mathematics they incorporate, the more surreal their work will be. Mathematics is an art, and as such, it depends on the creativity of the artist, not on what happens in the world "
Teachers of mathematics have calculated that, since their object of study is no longer a science, universities, institutes and schools should stop paying them. "Of course, they must stop paying us numerical figures, because the number and its operations are useless." Instead, they clarify that they should be given "a blank checkbook, with values ​​and operations that we ourselves invent."