Hobbies for mathematicians
Dan
The seashore is a great place to visit. Mountains are
grand, too. But somehow, I don't find the time to do
those things often enough.
Personally, I enjoy chess, backgammon, bridge et cetera.
However, combinatoric games hardly seems the proper
way to get away from combinatoric work. What are some
favorite hobbies of others who do alot of math? This is
actually a serious question. Do many mathematicians find
other interests to be just as rewarding?
Fred Galvin
Pinball.
Bob Wheeler
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Don Redmond
<gal...@math.ukans.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Dan wrote:
>
> > I'm curious how others handle pressures of their work.
> > The seashore is a great place to visit. Mountains are
> > grand, too. But somehow, I don't find the time to do
> > those things often enough.
> >
> > Personally, I enjoy chess, backgammon, bridge et cetera.
> > However, combinatoric games hardly seems the proper
> > way to get away from combinatoric work. What are some
> > favorite hobbies of others who do alot of math? This is
> > actually a serious question. Do many mathematicians find
> > other interests to be just as rewarding?
>
> Pinball.
I don't do pinball any more since all my favorite pinball games have
been put out to pasture. There is just something wrong with the present
generation.
I like photography and writing, but as someone else mentioned in another
post the photography often seems to turn into mathematics. It's that
darn zone system and the way light behaves. Oh well, there's always
writing, which hasn't become mathematical exclusively, yet.
Don
james d. hunter
Don Redmond wrote:
Just about everything involves some sort of math or logic.
To really get away from it you have get a job in
middle management.
> Don
Tangent60
>The seashore is a great place to visit. Mountains are
>grand, too. But somehow, I don't find the time to do
>those things often enough.
>
>Personally, I enjoy chess, backgammon, bridge et cetera.
>However, combinatoric games hardly seems the proper
>way to get away from combinatoric work. What are some
>favorite hobbies of others who do alot of math? This is
>actually a serious question. Do many mathematicians find
>other interests to be just as rewarding?
For me: ping pong, doom/doom II, QBasic, watching TV, frequent
stand-up-and-pace-around habits when I get an idea or need to think up one.
KRamsay
In article <367ee...@news.isni.net>, "Dan" <j...@isni.net> writes:
|Personally, I enjoy chess, backgammon, bridge et cetera.
|However, combinatoric games hardly seems the proper
|way to get away from combinatoric work. What are some
|favorite hobbies of others who do alot of math? This is
|actually a serious question. Do many mathematicians find
|other interests to be just as rewarding?
In the U.S., change ringing seems to attract bands with a fair share
of mathematicians and computer programmers in them. It's combinatorial
in a way, and one has to pay attention to what one is doing, but is
more rhythmic and relaxing than competitive games are. It's absorbing
without necessarily involving a lot of thought. Many gradations of
skill and difficulty are possible. Some people just know a simple
method or two and like to ring those a little bit each week, to hear
the bells as they ring; some people make more of a sport of it,
memorize whole batches of methods, performing marathon-like feats of
endurance, and so on.
If it's not clear what I'm talking about, a likely possibility :-),
an explanation of what change ringing all about is can be found at
http://www.nagcr.org/. One disadvantage is that change ringing is only
done in certain places. There's a paper in the American Math Monthly
(I forget which year) by a professor White describing some of the
associated mathematics.
I have some friends who are both change ringers and square dancers,
and they claim there are many similarities between them. Fortunately,
square dancing is done in more places than change ringing, at least
in North America. One such group has a web page.
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/t/tech-squares/
Keith Ramsay "Thou Shalt not hunt statistical significance with
kra...@aol.com a shotgun." --Michael Driscoll's 1st commandment
Cornelis Wessels
>
> I'm curious how others handle pressures of their work.
> The seashore is a great place to visit. Mountains are
> grand, too. But somehow, I don't find the time to do
> those things often enough.
>
Long distance running, chess, sex and hardrock music.
Sometimes in a different order.
Try it!
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Cornelis Wessels van der Val
The Netherlands
Office : K.We...@boskalis.nl
Private: Keez.W...@net.HCC.nl
Tim274
Tim Norfolk
Penny314
pennysmith
Hana Bizek
>
> I like to gamble, especially at poker.
>
> Tim Norfolk
My hobby is creating 3-dimensional composaite continuous geometrical
designs, thst exhibit some symmetry on all their faces, from a set of
Rubik's cubes. I employ conventional twiddling only. Try it, it is
relaxing and fun. Hana
arlin...@yahoo.com
their hobby.
These formulae rank basketball players, and you should find them interesting.
Site URL: http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/pressbox/5326.
They are posted above the corresponding list.
Sincerely,
Arthur Linton, B.Sc.
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