waybread
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Sir Monk, I have to confess that an extreme math anxiety that I developed in junior high has stayed with me the rest of my life. Too bad, but as a young teenager I had a math teacher who would call 6 or 8 students up to the board, give us a "blind" problem in the "new math" to work out in front of the rest of the class, and then sometimes yell and throw chalk board erasers if we didn't get the problems right. The humiliation quotient was rather high! Then 9th grade algebra was just as bad in an opposite kind of way. A very wooden unexpressive teacher who made me feel that if math wasn't socially scary it was as dry as dust.
So that's as far as I went with math, and it has been a small handicap in my life ever since.
I'll look to you for your thoughts on how Fibonacci numbers, the Golden Mean, &c seem to play out astrologically. I do enjoy working on harmonic charts, even without being able to explain them mathematically.
And I am so sympathetic about your back condition. Most illnesses have good and bad days. I hope today is one of the good days for you.
So that's as far as I went with math, and it has been a small handicap in my life ever since.
I'll look to you for your thoughts on how Fibonacci numbers, the Golden Mean, &c seem to play out astrologically. I do enjoy working on harmonic charts, even without being able to explain them mathematically.
And I am so sympathetic about your back condition. Most illnesses have good and bad days. I hope today is one of the good days for you.