Math and Literature

By Liu Hanzhang (Felix)
Math is something that we humans can never understand. We want to take advantage of it, but we cannot reach the end of Math. This concept is way above what a human mind can comprehend. A mathematician is a person that tries to comprehend. They know that they can’t reach to what lies at the end of the line of math, but still reach out for it. They stand on the last mathematician’s shoulder so they can reach out further. They are the real explorers of the vastness of math. They have the most logical minds, and the most creative souls.

Einstein once said that everyone is genius in something. These geniuses in math, are rather unique because math is the center of the grand web of civilization. And it is also the start of civilization. The language of the universe. And so is literature, the language of the humans, and we made this so that we can comprehend, something literal that we can grasp into our hands and toy around with. This series of toying resulted with writing.

Writing was created to help to remember. Remember the famous events that happened through the course of history. Numbers are to be made as currency, to distinct from 1 apple, from 5 apples. These two grand creations are used on a daily basis of humans today; from Euclid’s Elements, to the Bible; from the famous Euclid’s postulate 5, to the all-forgiving Jesus; from Newton’s Calculus, to Li Bai’s poem; from Archimedes, to Shakespeare; from Riemann, to Liang Qi Chao. One by one, these great people that we take pride as the best of the best, flow out like water. We’re all born to die. All that’s in between is a bonus, some extra time for you to realize that you have made the best out of your life. And these people tried to accomplish and were the closest to succession.

Writing and Math can be said to be two kinds of ways you can express yourself; one logically, and the other social. These two languages are what we speak today. When we bargain for the price of cabbage; when we talk to our friends about the snake that you just ate yesterday; when you wonder how many strands of hair you have in top your head; when you try and figure out how much energy is sucked into the pancake when it’s baking.

Both of them are beneficial to humans and we , in general, wouldn’t want it to disappear all of a sudden. It would be kind of confused if we couldn’t use numbers anymore, and even more confused when we can’t use words anymore.
So with the conclusion that words are basically different symbols that represent the information that you want to express, and numbers are basically different symbols that represent the quantity that you want to express. And that will be my viewpoint on Math and Literature.

数学和文学
刘翰章
数学是我们人类永远无法完全理解的东西。我们想利用它，但我们却不能抵达数学的终点。数学概念远远超出人类头脑所能理解。数学家是试图理解数学的人，他们知道他们不能到达数学的终点，但仍在坚持努力。他们站在过去的数学家的肩膀上，以便探索得更远。他们是浩瀚的数学领域的真正探险家。他们拥有最有逻辑的头脑和最有创造力的灵魂。
爱因斯坦曾经说过，每个人都是某一方面的天才。数学天才是非常独特的，因为数学是人类文明的巨大网络的中心，也是人类文明的开端，是宇宙的语言。而文学，作为人类的语言，也是如此。我们创造了文学是为了能够理解世界。文学是我们可以掌握在手中和反复把玩的东西，而反复的把玩的结果就产生了写作。
写作的目的是为了帮助记忆，记住历史上发生的著名事件。数字是为了记录货币，这区别于简单记录1个苹果、5个苹果。这两项伟大的创造每天都在人类生活中得到应用。从欧几里德的元素到圣经，从著名的欧几里德公理5到宽容的耶稣，从牛顿的微积分到李白的诗，从阿基米德到莎士比亚，从黎曼到梁启超。这些让我们骄傲的伟人中的伟人，一个接一个像流水一样涌出来。我们生来就注定要死去。生死两者之间是一种奖励，给你一些额外的时间让你在生活中做出成就。这些伟人们努力并最接近成功。
写作和数学可以说是表达自我的两种方式，一种是关于逻辑的，另一种是关于社会的。这两种语言都是我们今天所使用的：当我们为白菜讨价还价时；当我们和朋友谈论你昨天刚吃的蛇时；当你想知道你头顶有多少根头发时；当你试图弄清楚烤煎饼时摄入了多少能量时。
写作和数学都对人类有益，我们一般不会希望它们突然消失。如果我们再也不能使用数字了，人类将陷入困惑； 当我们不能再使用单词时，人类会更加困惑。
因此，可以得出这样的结论：单词是代表您想要表达的信息的符号，而数字是您想要表达的数量的符号。这就是我对数学和文学的看法。