Least Favorite Mathmatecal Formula

[Chainsaws_of_War_2]

Statistics

I'm actually about to drop that class I dislike it so much.

 

[kiwisushi]

whenever something is only explainable via einstein notations it gets a little bit complicated. Navier Stokes equations of flow are pretty difficult. Can work with them vaguely at 2D level, but 3D is too complicated for me (and almost anyone alive, including computational models) to deal with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations

For those that have no idea what they are.

Hehe, I'm guessing someone will one up me with M-Theory now!

I love them to death... of course I went to school for aerospace engineering

I was Civil Engineering, specializing in fluid dynamics and hydraulics, so had to use them to model river flows - same stuff different density!

 

[AdambotLive]

Algebreezy baby!! The most useless math form of them all. Once you can add, subtract, multiply and divide, math loses all of luster..

 

[Xanadeas]

I'll take it a step further and say I hate math in its entirety.
Actually, I just plain hate numbers.

Damnit Max, i was gonna say that. D: Glorious bastard. T_T Though I hate all of them I particularly hate the equations responsible for nuclear physics. I may understand words but I'll never understand numbers with letters. x_X

 

[ThreeWords]

I'll take it a step further and say I hate math in its entirety.
Actually, I just plain hate numbers.

Any reasons for this? Or just general distaste?

Call me bizarre, but I love maths and numbers. They make sense, follow rules, can't lie or change their minds, and, when used right, they form wonderful patterns and concepts.

/maths obsession

 

[justnotcricket]

Did it a actually take a math professor himself to point out that it's "Mathematical"? You spelled it wrong, I suppose your time in school would've been better spent studying English and not hating on math so much. I really don't mind when people don't like math, but I hope you're brave enough to admit that it's because you don't understand it, and not because it doesn't make sense, because it does.

=) Good point =) Maths and I have a non-aggression pact of sorts. I don't bother it and it doesn't bother me. Having said that, I think maths is beautiful, I just don't have time to sit down and understand more of it. I tend to like it applied to whatever chemistry I'm currently working on...

...and for that reason my least favourite formula would probably have to be the Schroedinger equation, because it's so elegant, so beautifully simple...but becomes only approximate for more than one-electron systems. Dammit! *shakes fist at sky*

 

[Fraught]

And my total confusion is why I don't like only being in 8th grade...sadly, I can't understand almost anything anyone says here.

 

[ThreeWords]

Any reasons for this? Or just general distaste?

Call me bizarre, but I love maths and numbers. They make sense, follow rules, can't lie or change their minds, and, when used right, they form wonderful patterns and concepts.

/maths obsession

I don't play well with numbers.
I can barely perform basic maths in my head, and while I can remember pretty much everything I've ever heard of read after it's a certain amount of time old, I can never remember numbers.

So I've just never been a fan.

Fair enough. Seems you're the reverse of me, seeing as I have a memory that last about two months at best

 

[traceur_]

Anything that requires more than a few lines of working.

I especially hate the quadratic formula, in year 10 we spent ages working with it and then the teacher told us that we didn't really need it because the calculators we would have the next year had a specific function for it. I was so pissed.

I hate maths.

 

[SimuLord]

Anything more complicated than A=L+E (the balance sheet equation in accounting) gives me fits. It's not that I'm bad at math (quite the opposite, as long as we're talking practical/applied math here), I'm just MUCH better at lower mathematics than higher.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Actually, I just plain hate numbers.

Numeralist!

The escapist doesn't like you're type

 

[phatty500]

trigonometry mainly sin,cos and tan

 

[z121231211]

Wow, so many math haters here.

I really hated SOH-CAH-TOA or whatever, it's just as easy to memorize without a nmemonic.

 

[sheic99]

Pretty much anything having to do with exponential and hyperbolic functions. They're just not intuitive (at least not to me).

At least trig formulas make sense, and they're easy to remember. Didn't any of you learn SOH-CAH-TOA?

I hate to tell you, but SOH-CAH-TOA is the very tip of of the ice berg for Trig functions.

Here's some of the fun ones [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_identities] you get to learn in college Trig.

Edit: Btw, all of the these require memorization and no formula sheets.