GEOMETRY
semester one topics
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The topic that I enjoyed learning about the most this semester was constructions with a compass and a straightedge because I felt that we were learning the foundations of all geometry. Instead of calculating the measures of sides and angles that already exist, we were constructing our own shapes and learning why geometry is the building block of basically everything on Earth. Since being introduced to Geometry, I have seen the world in a new way. Instead of seeing just a building, I see angles, shapes, and equations.
"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful." ~J.H. Poincare |
When I read this quote, I feel inspired. Not by math necessarily, but by the idea that beauty is found in everything. It also makes me want to find something that I find beautiful and that I love not for its practical purposes, but because it makes me happy.
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