Are you good at math?

Question

Several answers to the thread about playing an instrument and how it affects learning Spanish brought up the point that music is another language. Once you get past arithmetic with numbers and arithmetic with symbols, mathematics becomes another kind of language as well. A number of forers have indicated that they studied engineering or science and so probably learned a fair amount of mathematics as well. I was just wondering if the abilities were correlated, and if there was a tendency for people who thought mathematically to also have a greater interest in the rules of grammar.

Lorenzo, you want to establish a correlation! This is the best proof that you are actually a lover of maths! - cogumela, Oct 20, 2010

My wife would say that it is my 500 math, science, and engineering books :o - lorenzo9, Oct 20, 2010

Answer 1

My background is clearly scientific and also is my mind.

Hi Cogu, just to help: and my mind is too (or - as is my mind) something like that. - margaretbl, Oct 20, 2010

Answer 2

cogumela wrote

My background is clearly scientific and also is my mind.

Interesting--what type of science? I studied mathematical physics in school, but primarily worked in engineering before retiring last year. I still spend a lot of time thinking about math.

Answer 3

Math is the same thing! lol If you want to get better at it, do a lot of problems!