Frank
Hello, this is Frank.
Actually, I teach English and Spanish through online lessons while working as a consultant. Perhaps it’s the skill I honed during my trading company days. I feel that having a unique talent can sometimes be a life-saver.
Among the classes I have taught, there was one titled “Intensive Interview Practice!”. Using the assigned textbook “Listening to Knowledge Frontiers 2” (The Japan Times), students explored the essence of interactive communication.
The second chapter of this textbook has a theme: “Where is humanity heading?” One of the interviewees is Professor Marcus du Sautoy, a researcher at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His insights were so fascinating that I want to share them here.
“If you’re looking for a creator, then Mathematics is a very good candidate for a creator… Mathematics is the God that you’re all looking for.”
He said, “If you’re looking for a creator, mathematics is a very fitting candidate… Mathematics is the God you’ve all been searching for.” He also added that everything around us is merely fragments of mathematics embodied in the world.
I am not an agnostic, but personally, while mathematics is just mathematics, if there is something that created my existence to understand and perceive it—without even considering that—mathematics might be one of the candidates for the creator. Admittedly, as someone from a liberal arts background, this feels like a very scientific way of thinking.
Someone once said, “If you cannot believe in the unseen, you cannot believe in God.” In that sense, those who consider mathematics to be the ultimate creator might also assume the existence—or potential existence—of unknown realms.
“What makes me me?”
“What makes me who I am?”—Alongside questions about God or mathematics, this seems to be an eternal theme for me.
If you are interested in the textbook mentioned above, I highly recommend checking it out.
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