His mathematical knowledge amazes me, and I wondered if he has got a degree in maths/physics? Does anyone know?!

I'm in my 3rd year of a maths degree, and find so many links between his lyrics and what I study. It's fascinating, and I love it! (Like in Skeksis 'colours relate to numbers' reminds me of the four colour theorem in Graph Theory, and Universe in a Ball reminds me of Kepler's model of the Solar System). <3

As far as I'm aware he doesn't. I think he dropped out of college/uni!

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^ Cheers for that!

I too am totally fascinated by people who are good at it, and spend as much time as possible talking to my math instructors. I try my hardest. I'm pursuing a degree in Sound Engineering and I need through Differential Equations...I'm in Calculus 1 right now. It's all totally fascinating, but doesn't come naturally.

Math is amazing. What can be accomplished with it is astounding. I failed algebra as a kid twice, and they put me in "special" math classes until I graduated high school. Still couldn't do algebra. Went to community college and tried again. Failed. And then the next semester, I tried again. Something clicked. Suddenly, it all came together and I was an A student in algebra, then trigonometry and calculus, statistics, etc.

I quit school to pursue the metal thing. Somewhere in the span of time between then and now, I had some kind of memory wipe. Helping my 11 year old son with his homework has become extremely difficult. Whatever clicked before has clunked.

Old age. Fear it.

"Colours relate to numbers relate to sound", taken on its own, just makes me think of synaesthesia.

God I hate maths, but at the same time I am fascinated by it. I'm rubbish with numbers, or anything which is black-and-white for that matter.
The thing I hate about it is that there's no room for argument or even discussion, it's either right or wrong. That's really frustrating. Dropping it last year was the best thing I ever did at school.

I thought I was truely terrible at maths, then I met the people on my degree course. When it came to weighing out silicone with 20:1 catalysts, everyone was getting their calculators out

I'm crap at maths, in that it doesn't come naturally to me, but I've had to force quite a lot of it into my brain over the years to pursue my chosen profession (computer games programmer).

It's all about practice, and finding a way to understand it that works for you. I find that I'm a very visual person when it comes to maths, and find it a lot easier to understand when I have a concrete example of a situation where a particular field of maths is useful.

Of course if you never find a need for it, then I guess it's harder to find a reason to learn. It's really a beautiful subject though in my (nerdy) opinion

I'm doing fine in mathclass. It's just that it's so boring with all the numbers that make no sence what so ever. I don't want to count apples and shit. It's lame! They should relate math so physics so you learn both psyhics and math. I would pown in math if that would hapend.

Mathematics is a powerfull model of the reality in which everything is consistent! Pure awesomeness... How could you not love that?

It has always been my favourite subject at high school and now I ended up studying Aerospace Engineering. I Love it...

I'm doing fine in mathclass. It's just that it's so boring with all the numbers that make no sence what so ever. I don't want to count apples and shit. It's lame! They should relate math so physics so you learn both psyhics and math. I would pown in math if that would hapend.

Funny you should say that, I was awful at maths in high-school, but I was really good at physics, something that always seemed to confuse my teachers!