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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-01-30

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2004-06-19:

"Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated." -- M. C. Reed (The submitter notes: based on Internet searches, I believe this to be Professor Michael C. Reed of Duke University's Department of Mathematics.)
(Submitted to the mailing list by Chris Doherty)

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posted by [identity profile] osuneko.livejournal.com at 12:20pm on 2005-01-30
I always viewed sex as being more linguistic for having to do with how you relate to someone else. Math seems so coldly logical to me, far away from the realm of emotions I find in literature, language, and culture.

I guess I'm just not able to see it that way since I don't have a mathematical mind.
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posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 02:53pm on 2005-01-30
To me, logic isn't cold, and math encompasses things like this.
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posted by [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com at 01:54pm on 2005-01-30
What, you mean that every time I'm banging away like a bunny rabbit its actually a repression of my deep seated desire to work on quadratic equations?!

I somehow think not! lol
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 2005-02-01
Geometry, "simple harmonic motion" (yeah, physics concept but a pretty mathematical one), relationships ... oh, there's math there, it's just that it's neither formal math nor calculations. ;-) Intuitive math can be fun too.
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engineering t-shirt in college

posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 02:00pm on 2005-01-30
(twas only 7 symbols long, but will write it out since I lack the proper keys)

The integral of (2.718281828...) to the xth power is equal to the function defined by u to the nth power

only an engineer ...
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posted by [identity profile] leiacat.livejournal.com at 02:51pm on 2005-01-30
Oh, lovely! (But no, not just an engineer. This computer geek promptly e-mailed the quote to her favorite mathematician, and is giggling at the t-shirt and Wants One.)
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posted by [identity profile] hunterkirk.livejournal.com at 09:31pm on 2005-01-30
Sex by the numbers... that where 69 got it title.

:)
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 07:49am on 2005-01-31
I don't have a mathematics urge, sublimated or not. My sex drive, well, I leave that as an exercise for the reader (and the author, and however many of the author's closest friends...).
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