Last week, I finally watched π, a movie I’ve been wanting to see since 1998.  It was a neat little film about a mathematician who believes that numbers can be used to explain everything in the universe…even God or the stock market.  More recently, I found myself researching tesseracts and other 4-dimensional objects on Wikipedia, just trying to understand them.  I spent a few hours pondering the concept until it finally made sense.  Then, last night I spent an hour being simply enthralled by a piece on quantifying large numbers, which introduced me to the concepts of the Ackermann and Busy Beaver functions.  It’s been a fascinating week for me.

It’s times like these that I wish I had been a mathematician.  Maybe I’d have been good at it.